{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1896,"date_label":"1896 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1896,"edition_year":1896,"edition_year_basis":"Original NPNF Series II Volume X copyright statement, 1896; Wikisource physical transcription printing date uncertain","id":"ws-library-full-note:690386e8aed553cb5b48:cite_note-2","individual_assistant_work_allocation_unestablished":true,"is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter XIII., editorial note cite_note-2","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["75. So, then, a commandment to this effect is not given, but a counsel is. Chastity is commanded, entire continence counselled. “But all men cannot receive this saying, but they to whom it is given. For there are eunuchs which were so born from their mothers womb,” in whom exists a natural necessity not the virtue of chastity. “And there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs,” of their own will, that is, not of necessity. “And there are eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men.…” And, therefore, great is the grace of continence in them, because it is the will, not incapacity, which makes a man continent. For it is seemly to preserve the gift of divine working whole. And let them not think it too little not to be impeded by the inclination of the body, for if the reward for going through that conflict is taken from their reach, the matter of sin is also removed, and though they cannot receive the crown, no more can they be overcome. They have other kinds of virtues by which they ought to commend themselves if their faith be firm, their mercifulness abundant, avarice far from them, grace abundant. But in them there is no fault, for they are ignorant of the act of sin."],"source_library_url":"/library/690386e8aed553cb5b48/#ws-library-full-note:690386e8aed553cb5b48:cite_note-2","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_X/Works/Concerning_Widows/Chapter_13#cite_note-2","translation_credit_roles":["translator","assistant","assistant"],"translator":"Augustus Henry Eugene de Romestin, Eugene de Romestin (assistant), Henry Thomas Forbes Duckworth (assistant)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/ambrose-library-note-batch-0069/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"15e5014e132749199fbb98a5325748a81e312f7399a7eb4ee121e22942a1252a","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:690386e8aed553cb5b48:cite_note-2"},"verified":true,"work":"Concerning Widows","work_id":"ws-npnf2-10-ambrose-033e2cbf922f4203cd9e"}