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Chapter XVI.—Peter’s Speech Continued.
“The chaste woman is adorned with the Son of
God as with a bridegroom. She is clothed with holy light.
Her beauty lies in a well-regulated soul; and she is fragrant with
ointment, even with a good reputation. She is arrayed in
beautiful vesture, even in modesty. She wears about her precious
pearls, even chaste words. And she is radiant, for1179
her mind has been brilliantly lighted
up. Onto a beautiful mirror does she look, for she looks into
God. Beautiful cosmetics1180
| 1180 κόσμῳ—properly
ornaments; but here a peculiar meaning is evidently required. | does she use,
namely, the fear of God, with which she admonishes her soul.
Beautiful is the woman not because she has chains of gold on
her,1181
| 1181 Lit., “as
being chained with gold.” | but because she has been set free from
transient lusts. The chaste woman is greatly desired by the great
King;1182
she has been wooed, watched, and loved
by Him. The chaste woman does not furnish occasions for being
desired, except by her own husband. The chaste woman is grieved
when she is desired by another. The chaste woman loves her
husband from the heart, embraces, soothes, and pleases him, acts the
slave to him, and is obedient to him in all things, except when she
would be disobedient to God. For she who obeys God is without the
aid of watchmen chaste in soul and pure in body.
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