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Chapter XIII.—Of Chastity.
And concerning chastity, the holy word teaches us
not only not to sin in act, but not even in thought, not even in the heart
to think of any evil, nor look on another man’s wife with our eyes
to lust after her. Solomon, accordingly, who was a king and a prophet,
said: “Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look
straight before thee: make straight paths for your feet.”661
And the voice of the Gospel teaches still more urgently concerning
chastity, saying: “Whosoever looketh on a woman who is not his
own wife, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already
in his heart.”662
“And he that marrieth,”
says [the Gospel], “her that is divorced from her husband,
committeth adultery; and whosoever putteth away his wife, saving for
the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.”663
Because Solomon says: “Can a man take fire in his bosom, and
his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his
feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to a married woman shall not
be innocent.”664
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