On the apparel of women.
Book i
Chapter i.—introduction. modesty in apparel becoming to women, in memory of the introduction of sin into the world through a woman.
Chapter ii.—the origin of female ornamentation, traced back to the angels who had fallen.
Chapter iii.—concerning the genuineness of “the prophecy of enoch.”
Chapter iv.—waiving the question of the authors, tertullian proposes to consider the things on their own merits.
Chapter v.—gold and silver not superior in origin or in utility to other metals.
Chapter vi.—of precious stones and pearls.
Chapter vii.—rarity the only cause which makes such things valuable.
Chapter viii.—the same rule holds with regard to colours. god’s creatures generally not to be used, except for the purposes to which he has appointed
Chapter ix.—god’s distribution must regulate our desires, otherwise we become the prey of ambition and its attendant evils.
Book ii
Chapter i.—introduction. modesty to be observed not only in its essence, but in its accessories.
Chapter ii.—perfect modesty will abstain from whatever tends to sin, as well as from sin itself. difference between trust and presumption. if secure
Chapter iii.—grant that beauty be not to be feared: still it is to be shunned as unnecessary and vainglorious.
Chapter iv.—concerning the plea of “pleasing the husband.”
Chapter v.—some refinements in dress and personal appearance lawful, some unlawful. pigments come under the latter head.
Chapter vi.—of dyeing the hair.
Chapter vii.—of elaborate dressing of the hair in other ways, and its bearing upon salvation.
Chapter viii.—men not excluded from these remarks on personal adornment.
Chapter ix.—excess in dress, as well as in personal culture, to be shunned. arguments drawn from i cor. vii.
Chapter x.—tertullian refers again to the question of the origin of all these ornaments and embellishments.
Chapter xi.—christian women, further, have not the same causes for appearing in public, and hence for dressing in fine array as gentiles. on the cont
Chapter xii.—such outward adornments meretricious, and therefore unsuitable to modest women.
Chapter xiii.—it is not enough that god know us to be chaste: we must seem so before men. especially in these times of persecution we must inure our
