Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4

Introductory Notice

Part Fourth

I. On the Pallium6 pages

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On the Apparel of Women

II. On the Apparel of Women. Book I20 pages

Chapter I.—Introduction. Modesty in Apparel Becoming to Women, in Memory of the Introduction of Sin into the World Through a Woman
Chapter II.—The Origin of Female Ornamentation, Traced Back to the Angels Who Had Fallen
Chapter III.—Concerning the Genuineness of "The Prophecy of Enoch."
Chapter IV.—Waiving the Question of the Authors, Tertullian Proposes to Consider the Things on Their Own Merits
Chapter V.—Gold and Silver Not Superior in Origin or in Utility to Other Metals
Chapter VI.—Of Precious Stones and Pearls
Chapter VII.—Rarity the Only Cause Which Makes Such Things Valuable
Chapter VIII.—The Same Rule Holds with Regard to Colours. God's Creatures Generally Not to Be Used, Except for the Purposes to Which He Has Appointed Them
Chapter IX.—God's Distribution Must Regulate Our Desires, Otherwise We Become the Prey of Ambition and Its Attendant Evils
Book II
Chapter III.—Grant that Beauty Be Not to Be Feared: Still It is to Be Shunned as Unnecessary and Vainglorious
Chapter IV.—Concerning the Plea of "Pleasing the Husband."
Chapter V.—Some Refinements in Dress and Personal Appearance Lawful, Some Unlawful. Pigments Come Under the Latter Head
Chapter VI.—Of Dyeing the Hair
Chapter VII.—Of Elaborate Dressing of the Hair in Other Ways, and Its Bearing Upon Salvation
Chapter VIII.—Men Not Excluded from These Remarks on Personal Adornment
Chapter IX.—Excess in Dress, as Well as in Personal Culture, to Be Shunned. Arguments Drawn from I Cor. VII
Chapter X.—Tertullian Refers Again to the Question of the Origin of All These Ornaments and Embellishments
Chapter XII.—Such Outward Adornments Meretricious, and Therefore Unsuitable to Modest Women
Elucidation

On the Veiling of Virgins

III. On the Veiling of Virgins17 pages

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To His Wife

IV. To His Wife. Book I17 pages

On Exhortation to Chastity

V. On Exhortation to Chastity13 pages

Summary

On Monongamy

VI. On Monogamy17 pages

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On Modesty22 pages

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On Fasting

VIII. On Fasting. In Opposition to the Psychics17 pages

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IX. De Fuga in Persecutione

I

X. Appendix9 pages

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Minucius Felix

Introductory Note to Minucius Felix

The Octavius of Minucius Felix5 pages

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Commodianus

Introductory Note to the Instructions of Commodianus81 pages

Origen

Origen De Principiis35 pages

Elucidations4 pages

Summary