{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">The baths are opened promiscuously to men and women; and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_297\">[297]</span>\r\nthere they strip for licentious indulgence (for from looking, men get\r\nto loving), as if their modesty had been washed away in the bath. Those\r\nwho have not become utterly destitute of modesty shut out strangers;\r\nbut bathe with their own servants, and strip naked before their slaves,\r\nand are rubbed by them; giving to the crouching menial liberty to lust,\r\nby permitting fearless handling. For those who are introduced before\r\ntheir naked mistresses while in the bath, study to strip themselves\r\nin order to audacity in lust, casting off fear in consequence of the\r\nwicked custom. The ancient athletes, ashamed to exhibit a man naked,\r\npreserved their modesty by going through the contest in drawers; but\r\nthese women, divesting themselves of their modesty along with their\r\nchemise, wish to appear beautiful, but contrary to their wish are\r\nsimply proved to be wicked. For through the body itself the wantonness\r\nof lust shines clearly; as in the case of dropsical people, the water\r\ncovered by the skin. Disease in both is known from the look. Men,\r\ntherefore, affording to women a noble example of truth, ought to\r\nbe ashamed at their stripping before them, and guard against these\r\ndangerous sights; “for he who has looked curiously,” it is said, “hath\r\nsinned already.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_667\" id=\"FNanchor_667\">[667]</a> At home, therefore, they ought to regard with\r\nmodesty parents and domestics; in the ways, those they meet; in the\r\nbaths, women; in solitude, themselves; and everywhere the Word, who is\r\neverywhere, “and without Him was not anything.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_668\" id=\"FNanchor_668\">[668]</a> For so only shall\r\none remain without falling, if he regard God as ever present with him.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER V. BEHAVIOUR IN THE BATHS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_667","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-530"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9c22e10cf428fc4b74dadeb59734f92329f045efdaef5f43e11eb8ae84ba1203","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_667","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_667","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_667\" id=\"Footnote_667\">[667]</a> Matt. v. 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_667","text_sha256":"48417768c42745f973fc874d61e275bf8a2d8bcf0729729427e6f50509f09b21","verified":false,"work_id":null}