The same kinds of eyes reciprocally crave after each other. Seeing and being seen belong to the self-same lust. But not even between customs have those most chaste s teachers chosen to examine. Still, until very recently, among us, either custom was, with comparative indifference, admitted to communion. Truth had been content to make an agreement with custom, in order that under the name of custom it might enjoy itself even partially.
Good things scandalize none but an evil mind.
For they axe no less unwilling to suffer even this. But when the very spirit itself is violated in a virgin by the abstraction of her covering, she has learnt to lose what she used to keep. Demonstrate that it is Thyself who art the coverer of virgins. But we withal retort the self-same line of argument. Therefore those whom, by passing them over in silence, he has not divided, he has included in the other species.