Tertullian, On Modesty. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.
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- On Modesty Chapter 1 — VII. Modesty, the flower of manners, the honour of our bodies, the grace of the sexes, the integrity of the blood, the guarantee of our race, the basis of sanctity, the pre-indication of every good disposition; rare…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 2 — God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy Must Not Be Indiscriminate. “But,” say they, “God is ‘good,’ and ‘most good,’ and ‘pitiful-hearted,’ and ‘a pitier,’ and ‘abundant in pitiful-heartedness,’ which He…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 3 — An Objection Anticipated Before the Discussion Above Promised is Commenced. But before doing this, I will make short work with an answer which meets us from the opposite side, in reference to that species of…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 4 — Adultery and Fornication Synonymous. Having defined the distinction (between the kinds) of repentance, we are by this time, then, able to return to the assessment of the sins—whether they be such as can obtain pardon…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 5 — Of the Prohibition of Adultery in the Decalogue. Of how deep guilt, then, adultery—which is likewise a matter of fornication, in accordance with its criminal function—is to be accounted, the Law of God first comes to…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 6 — Chapter VI.—Examples of Such Offences Under the Old Dispensation No Pattern for the Disciples of the New. But Even the Old Has Examples of Vengeance Upon Such Offences. Plainly, if you show by what patronages of…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 7 — Of the Parables of the Lost Ewe and the Lost Drachma. You shall have leave to begin with the parables, where you have the lost ewe re-sought by the Lord, and carried back on His shoulders. Let the very paintings upon…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 8 — Of the Prodigal Son. But, however, the majority of interpreters of the parables are deceived by the self-same result as is of very frequent occurrence in the case of embroidering garments with purple. When you think…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 9 — Chapter IX.—Certain General Principles of Parabolic Interpretation. These Applied to the Parables Now Under Consideration, Especially to that of the Prodigal Son. We, however, who do not make the parables the sources…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 10 — Repentance More Competent to Heathens Than to Christians. When, therefore, the yoke which forbade the discussion of these parables with a view to the heathens has been shaken off, and the necessity once for all…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 11 — From Parables Tertullian Comes to Consider Definite Acts of the Lord. From the side of its pertinence to the Gospel, the question of the parables indeed has by this time been disposed of. If, however, the Lord, by…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 12 — Of the Verdict of the Apostles, Assembled in Council, Upon the Subject of Adultery. Chapter XII.—Of the Verdict of the Apostles, Assembled in Council, Upon the Subject of Adultery. Accordingly, these who have…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 13 — Of St. Paul, and the Person Whom He Urges the Corinthians to Forgive. We know plainly at this point, too, the suspicions which they raise. For, in fact, they suspect the Apostle Paul of having, in the second…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 14 — The Same Subject Continued. And—these intervening points having accordingly been got rid of—I return to the second of Corinthians; in order to prove that this saying also of the apostle, “Sufficient to such a man be…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 15 — The Same Subject Continued. If you hammer out the sequel of that Epistle to illustrate the meaning of the apostle, neither will that sequel be found to square with the obliteration of incest; lest even here the…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 16 — General Consistency of the Apostle. Necessary it is, therefore, that the (character of the) apostle should be continuously pointed out to them; whom I will maintain to be such in the second of Corinthians withal, as…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 17 — Consistency of the Apostle in His Other Epistles. Challenge me to front the apostolic line of battle; look at his Epistles: they all keep guard in defence of modesty, of chastity, of sanctity; they all aim their…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 18 — Answer to a Psychical Objection. “But these (passages),” says (our opponent), “will pertain to the interdiction of all immodesty, and the enforcing of all modesty, yet without prejudice to the place of pardon; which…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 19 — Objections from the Revelation and the First Epistle of St. John Refuted. But how far (are we to treat) of Paul; since even John appears to give some secret countenance to the opposite side? as if in the Apocalypse…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 20 — From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of the Apostles, and of the Law. Chapter XX.—From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of the Apostles, and of the Law. The…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 21 — Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys. If the apostles understood these (figurative meanings of the Law) better, of course they were more careful (with regard to them than even…vatican.va
- On Modesty Chapter 22 — Of Martyrs, and Their Intercession on Behalf of Scandalous Offenders. But you go so far as to lavish this “power” upon martyrs withal! No sooner has any one, acting on a preconceived arrangement, put on the…vatican.va
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