If the fashion of thy soul is avarice, put on another fashion and come in.  Put off thy former fashion, cloke it not up.  Put off, I pray thee, fornication and uncleanness, and put on the brightest robe of chastity.  This charge I give thee, before Jesus the Bridegroom of souls come in and see their fashions.  A long notice Greek, προθεσμία.  Compare Gal. iv. 2:  “the time appointed of the father.”  At Athens it meant a “limitation,” or fixed period within which a debt must be claimed or paid, or an action commenced. is allowed thee; thou hast forty Index, “Lent.” days for repentance:  thou hast full opportunity both to put off, and wash, and to put on and enter.  But if thou persist in an evil purpose, the speaker is blameless, but thou must not look for the grace:  for the water will receive, but the Spirit will not accept thee Compare xvii. 36..  If any one is conscious of his wound, let him take the salve; if any has fallen, let him arise.  Let there be no Simon among you, no hypocrisy, no idle curiosity about the matter.