It is vain to cultivate beauty, wicked to plaster oneself with cosmetics. Fancy hairstyles are equally reprehensible. In brief, Christian women should renounce extravagant bodily accoutrements and adornments. God created the instruments of luxury to test mankind' s self control, and a Christian woman can have no good reason for gadding about in finery. Christian modesty must not only exist but be seen.
Luxury is nothing but an impediment to martyrdom.
The end of the world may be at hand. The Christian must forfeit worldly ornaments if he or she desires to gain a heavenly reward. It is also rougher and seems unfinished. Book 2 is a more polished and broader treatment of the same ideas, and would seen to be later, Q although some scholars B think it is the earlier of the two. Book 1 Chapter 3 contains a much discussed digression on the apocryphal book of 1 Enoch, in which Tertullian discusses why it is not canonical, and suggests reasons why it must have some value, and so can be used for his argument.