to dwell with a garrulous and quarrelsome woman in the middle of the
house." For it is required of women that by a covering of modesty
and humility they show the fear of God, for the conversion and growth
f. 8 a of the faith of those who are without, of the men and of the women. If we
have a little admonished and instructed you, our sisters and daughters, our
members, ye like wise women, seek and choose for yourselves those things
which are excellent and honoured and without rebuke in the dwelling of
the world ; learn and know such things by which ye can get to the
kingdom of our Lord and have rest, having already been pleasing to Him
by good works.