Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But there are circumstances in which this strictness may be relaxed.\r\nFor allowance must sometimes be made in favour of those women who have\r\nnot been fortunate<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_703\" id=\"FNanchor_703\">[703]</a> in falling in with chaste husbands, and adorn\r\nthemselves in order to please their husbands. But let desire for the\r\nadmiration of their husbands alone be proposed as their aim. I would\r\nnot have<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_316\">[316]</span> them to devote themselves to personal display, but to attract\r\ntheir husbands by chaste love for them—a powerful and legitimate\r\ncharm. But since they wish their wives to be unhappy in mind, let the\r\nlatter, if they would be chaste, make it their aim to allay by degrees\r\nthe irrational impulses and passions of their husbands. And they are\r\nto be gently drawn to simplicity, by gradually accustoming them to\r\nsobriety. For decency is not produced by the imposition of what is\r\nburdensome, but by the abstraction of excess. For women’s articles of\r\nluxury are to be prohibited, as things of swift wing producing unstable\r\nfollies and empty delights; by which, elated and furnished with wings,\r\nthey often fly away from the marriage bonds. Wherefore also women ought\r\nto dress neatly, and bind themselves around with the band of chaste\r\nmodesty, lest through giddiness they slip away from the truth. It is\r\nright, then, for men to repose confidence in their wives, and commit\r\nthe charge of the household to them, as they are given to be their\r\nhelpers in this.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER XI. A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_703","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-570"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"308dea99a9eadff892b0298828efca5c218fd345f3a98b2b42636b073b3a0692","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_703","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_703","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_703\" id=\"Footnote_703\">[703]</a> Εὐτυχούσαις, for which the text has ἑντοχούσαις.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_703","text_sha256":"801b0cca90cd19eff00729717e2c00f42dd6ab0e531d24e94ba2e8d5b4f600f6","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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