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Chapter
XV.—Of Putting Off Cloaks.
But since we have touched on one special point of
empty observance,8851
| 8851 i.e. the
hand-washing. | it will not be
irksome to set our brand likewise on the other points against which the
reproach of vanity may deservedly be laid; if, that is, they are
observed without the authority of any precept either of the Lord, or else of the
apostles. For matters of this kind belong not to religion, but to
superstition, being studied, and forced, and of curious rather than
rational ceremony;8852
deserving of
restraint, at all events, even on this ground, that they put us on a
level with Gentiles.8853
| 8853 Or, “Gentile
practices.” | As, e.g., it
is the custom of some to make prayer with cloaks doffed, for so do the
nations approach their idols; which practice, of course, were its
observance becoming, the apostles, who teach concerning the garb of
prayer,8854
would have
comprehended in their instructions, unless any think that is was
in prayer that Paul had left his cloak with Carpus!8855
God, forsooth, would not hear cloaked
suppliants, who plainly heard the three saints in the Babylonian
king’s furnace praying in their trousers and turbans.8856
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