Wednesday, June 4, 2008

on female dress

I found this in article written between 161 -230 A.D. buy a man named Tertullian :

here's an excerpt:

" But why should you be a danger to your neighbor ? Why should you excite him in lustful desires ? In amplifying His law God makes no distinction of penalty between lust and fornication, and it will scarcely be that they escape punishment who have been to another the cause of perdition. That other, as soon as he has lusted after your beauty and in his mind committed the lustful act, perishes; and you have been made the sword of his destruction. "

He goes on to address why women change their appearance ? " Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's skill in crafting them. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things..."