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Chapter VIII.—Joseph and
Potiphar’s Wife; Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to
Be.
There is Joseph, faithful, and intelligent,
and wise, and who feared God in everything. Did not a woman
conceive an excessive passion for the beauty of this chaste and upright
man? And, when he would not yield and consent to gratify her
passionate desire,471
471 Lit.
“her passion and her desire.” | she cast the
righteous man into every kind of distress and torment, to within a
little of death,472
472 Lit.
“even to death.” | by bearing
false witness. But God delivered him from all the evils that came
upon him through this wretched woman. Ye see, my brethren,
what distresses the constant sight of the person of the Egyptian woman
brought upon the righteous man. Therefore, let us not be
constantly with women, nor with maidens. For this is not
profitable for those who truly wish to “gird up their
loins.”473 For it is
required that we love the sisters in all purity and chasteness, and
with all curbing of thought, in the fear of God, not associating
constantly with them, nor finding access to them at every
hour.
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