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XXI.—The Same Subject Continued.
“Much better is it, then, that your first
circumstances should be distressing. For when this is the case,
they do not so deeply grieve you, because you hope that they will pass
away, and they yield joy though the expectation of better
circumstances. But, above all, I wish you to know how much
chastity is pleasing to God. The chaste woman is God’s
choice, God’s good pleasure, God’s glory, God’s
child. So great a blessing is chastity,1188
| 1188 We have adopted
an emendation of Wieseler’s. The emendation is
questionable; but the sense is the best that can be got out of the
words. | that if there had not been a law that
not even a righteous person should enter into the kingdom of God
unbaptized, perhaps even the
erring Gentiles might have been saved solely on account of
chastity. Wherefore I am exceedingly sorry for those erring ones
who are chaste because they shrink from baptism—thus choosing to
be chaste without good hope. Wherefore they are not saved; for
the decree of God is clearly set down, that an unbaptized person cannot
enter into His kingdom.” When he said this, and much more,
we turned to sleep.
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