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of the bride was not natural, but of choice (for she did not listen to God, but transgressed), for this reason he leads her with another medicine. You became uncomely, therefore, not from nature, but from choice; and you became comely from obedience. Hear, O daughter, and see, and forget your people, and your father's house, and the king will desire your beauty. Then, that you may learn that he says nothing perceptible, when hearing "beauty," do not think of the eye, nor the nose, nor the mouth, nor the neck, but reverence, faith, love, the things within; For all the glory of the king's daughter is within. And for all these things let us give thanks to God, the giver, because to him alone belongs glory, honor, and power unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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νύμφης οὐκ ἦν φυσικὴ, ἀλλὰ προαιρετικὴ (οὐ γὰρ ἤκουσε τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ παρέβη), διὰ τοῦτο ἑτέρῳ φαρμάκῳ ἄγει αὐτήν. Ἄμορφος τοίνυν ἐγένου, οὐκ ἀπὸ φύσεως, ἀλλὰ προαιρέσεως· καὶ εὔμορφος ἐγένου ἀπὸ ὑπακοῆς. Ἄκουσον, θύγατερ, καὶ ἴδε, καὶ ἐπιλάθου τοῦ λαοῦ σου, καὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου, καὶ ἐπιθυμήσει ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ κάλλους σου. Εἶτα ἵνα μάθῃς, ὅτι οὐδὲν λέγει αἰσθητὸν, ἀκούων τὸ κάλλος, μὴ ὀφθαλμὸν νομίσῃς. μὴ ῥῖνα, μὴ στόμα, μηδὲ τράχηλον, ἀλλ' εὐλάβειαν, πίστιν, ἀγάπην, τὰ ἔνδον· Πᾶσα γὰρ ἡ δόξα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως ἔσωθεν. Ὑπὲρ δὲ τούτων ἁπάντων εὐχαριστήσωμεν τῷ Θεῷ, τῷ δοτῆρι, ὅτι αὐτῷ πρέπει μόνῳ δόξα, τιμὴ, κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.