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| Concerning the Plea of “Pleasing the Husband.”
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Chapter
IV.—Concerning the Plea of “Pleasing the
Husband.”
As if I were speaking to Gentiles, addressing you
with a Gentile precept, and (one which is) common to all, (I would
say,) “You are bound to please your husbands
only.”170
But you will
please them in proportion as you take no care to please
others. Be ye without carefulness,171
blessed (sisters): no wife is “ugly” to her own
husband. She “pleased” him enough when she was
selected (by him as his wife); whether commended by form or by
character. Let none of you think that, if she abstain from the
care of her person,172
she will incur the
hatred and aversion of husbands. Every husband is the exactor of
chastity; but beauty, a believing (husband) does not
require, because we are not captivated by the same graces173
which the Gentiles think (to be)
graces:174
an unbelieving one, on the other
hand, even regards with suspicion, just from that infamous opinion of
us which the Gentiles have. For whom, then, is it that you
cherish your beauty? If for a believer, he does not exact
it: if for an unbeliever, he does not believe in it unless
it be artless.175
Why are you
eager to please either one who is suspicious, or else one who desires
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