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TITLE 6. -Concerning training, and practice, and exercise.

From care and mindfulness peace will appear to you. Child, in your life test your soul. Train yourself for godliness. For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. Labors practiced from long habit befall those who are well-trained with less pain. - Let us imitate those who practice their military drills, who, having gained experience in gestures and formations, enjoy the benefit of their training in battles. 95.1312 Virtue unpracticed in deeds is quickly destroyed by circumstances. From much practice and exercise the violence and wildness of the passions weaken. Continuous exercise produces firm knowledge, as lack of practice produces ignorance; and again, engagement with it increases experience. -Practice is the nurse of knowledge.

TITLE 7. -Concerning those who acknowledge their faults.

I have acknowledged my iniquity, and my sin I have not concealed. I will declare my iniquity, and I will be anxious for my sin. The just man is his own accuser in his first speech. Before judgment examine yourself, and in the time of visitation you will find mercy. Be not ashamed to confess your sins.

TITLE 8. -Concerning women; that they ought to be subject to their own husbands,

and do nothing without them. God said to the woman: Your desire shall be for your husband, and he

shall rule over you. If a woman becomes a wife to a man, and her vows are upon her, according to the utterance of her lips, as many as she has bound upon her soul, and her husband hears it, and is silent to her on the day he hears, then all her vows shall stand, and her obligations with which she has bound her soul shall stand. But if her husband disallows her on the day he hears, all her vows, and her obligations with which she has bound her soul, shall not stand, because her husband disallowed; and the Lord will clear her. A woman honoring her own husband will appear wise to all. Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church; and he is the head of the body. But as the Church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in everything. Let each one love his own wife as himself; and the wife, that she fear her husband. Wives, being subject to your own husbands, so that if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives; when they see your conduct in fear. Whose adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of hair and wearing of gold, or putting on of apparel, but the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, 95.1313 calling him lord, whose children you are, doing good, and not being afraid with any amazement.

TITLE 9. -Concerning women; that they ought not to pray unveiled, or

to speak, or to teach in the church of God . Judge in yourselves: is it fitting for a woman uncovered to God

to pray? does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor

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ΤΙΤΛ. ϛʹ. -Περὶ γυμνασίου, καὶ μελέτης, καὶ ἀσκήσεως.

Ἐκ μερίμνης καὶ φροντίδος ἀναφανεῖταί σοι εἰρήνη. Τέκνον, ἐν ζωῇ σου πείρασον τὴν ψυχήν σου. Γύμναζε σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν. Ἡ γὰρ σωματικὴ γυμνασία πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶν ὠφέλιμος· ἡ δὲ εὐσέβεια πρὸς πάντα ὠφέλιμός ἐστιν, ἐπαγγελίαν ἔχουσα ζωῆς, τῆς νῦν καὶ τῆς μελλούσης. Οἱ ἐκ μακρᾶς συνηθείας μελετηθέντες πόνοι, ἀλυπότερον προσπίπτουσι τοῖς ἐγγεγυμνασμένοις. - Μιμησώμεθα τοὺς ἐν τοῖς τακτικοῖς τὰς μελέτας ποιουμένους, οἵ γε ἐν χειρονομίαις, καὶ ὀρχήσεσι τὴν ἐμπειρίαν κτησάμενοι, ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγώνων τοῦ ἐκ τῆς παιδείας ἀπολαύουσι κέρδους. 95.1312 Ἀρετὴ ἀμελέτητος ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις, ταχέως ὑπὸ τῶν περιστάσεων ἀφανίζεται. Ἐκ μελέτης πολλῆς καὶ ἀσκήσεως ἡ βία καὶ ἡ ἀγριότης τῶν παθῶν ἀσθενεῖ. Ἡ συνεχὴς ἄσκησις ἐπιστήμην παγίαν ἐργάζεται, ὡς ἀμαθίαν ἀμελετησία· καὶ πάλιν αὔξει τὴν πεῖραν ἡ περὶ αὐτὴν τριβή. -Μελέτη τροφὸς ἐπιστήμης.

ΤΙΤΛ. Ζʹ. -Περὶ γνωσιμαχούντων.

Τὴν ἀνομίαν μου ἐγνώρισα, καὶ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν μου οὐκ ἐκάλυψα. Τὴν ἀνομίαν μου ἐγὼ ἀναγγελῶ, καὶ μεριμνήσω ὑπὲρ τῆς ἁμαρτίας μου. ∆ίκαιος ἑαυτοῦ κατήγορος ἐν πρωτολογίᾳ. Πρὸ κρίσεως ἐξέταζε σεαυτὸν, καὶ ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς εὑρήσεις ἱλασμόν. Μὴ αἰσχυνθῇς ὁμολογῆσαι ἐφ' ἁμαρτίαις σου.

ΤΙΤΛ. Ηʹ. -Περὶ γυναικῶν· ὅτι χρὴ αὐτὰς ὑποτάσσεσθαι τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσι,

καὶ μηδὲν ποιεῖν χωρὶς αὐτῶν. Εἶπεν ὁ Θεὸς τῇ γυναικί· Πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα σου ἡ ἀποστροφή σου, καὶ αὐτός

σου κυριεύσει. Ἐὰν γενομένη γένηται γυνὴ ἀνδρὶ, καὶ εὐχαὶ αὐτῆς ἐπ' αὐτῇ, κατὰ τὴν διαστολὴν τῶν χειλέων αὐτῆς, ὅσας ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀκούσῃ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, καὶ παρασιωπήσῃ αὐτῇ, ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἀκούσῃ, καὶ οὕτω στήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ εὐχαὶ αὐτῆς, καὶ οἱ ὁρισμοὶ αὐτῆς, οὓς ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς στήσονται. Ἐὰν δὲ ἀνανεύσῃ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς, ᾗ ἐὰν ἡμέρᾳ ἀκούσῃ, πᾶσαι αἱ εὐχαὶ αὐτῆς, καὶ οἱ ὁρισμοὶ αὐτῆς, οὓς ὡρίσατο κατὰ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς, οὐ μενοῦσιν, ὅτι ἀνὴρ ἀνένευσε· καὶ Κύριος καθαρίσει αὐτήν. Γυνὴ ἴδιον ἄνδρα τιμῶσα, σοφὴ πᾶσι φανήσεται. Αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν ὑποτασσέσθωσαν ὡς τῷ Κυρίῳ· ὅτι ἀνὴρ κεφαλὴ τῆς γυναικὸς, ὡς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς κεφαλὴ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας· καὶ αὐτός ἐστι κεφαλὴ τοῦ σώματος. Ἀλλ' ὡς ἡ Ἐκκλησία ὑποτάσσεται τῷ Χριστῷ, οὕτως καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ἐν πᾶσιν. Ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ὡς ἑαυτὸν ἀγαπάτω· ἡ δὲ γυνὴ, ἵνα φοβηθῇ τὸν ἄνδρα. Αἱ γυναῖκες ὑποτασσόμεναι τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, ἵνα εἴ τινες ἀπειθοῦσι τῷ λόγῳ, διὰ τῆς τῶν γυναικῶν ἀναστροφῆς ἄνευ λόγου κερδηθήσωνται· ἐποπτεύσαντες τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν. Ὧν ἔστω οὐχ ὁ ἐν πλοκαῖς τριχῶν καὶ περιθέσεως χρυσίων, ἢ ἐνδύσεως ἱματίων κόσμος, ἀλλ' ὁ κρυπτὸς τῆς καρδίας ἄνθρωπος ἐν ἀφθάρτῳ τοῦ πραέως καὶ ἡσυχίου πνεύματος, ὅς ἐστιν ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ πολυτελής. Οὕτως γάρ ποτε αἱ γυναῖκες αἱ ἐλπίζουσαι εἰς Θεὸν, ἐκόσμουν ἑαυτὰς, ὑποτασσόμεναι τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, ὡς Σάῤῥα ὑπήκουσε τῷ Ἀβραὰμ, 95.1313 κύριον αὐτὸν καλοῦσα, ἧς ἐγενήθητε τέκνα, ἀγαθοποιοῦσαι, καὶ μὴ φοβούμεναι μηδεμίαν πτόησιν.

ΤΙΤΛ. Θʹ. -Περὶ γυναικῶν· ὅτι οὐ δεῖ ἀκατακαλύπτως εὔχεσθαι αὐτὰς, ἢ

λαλεῖν, ἢ διδάσκειν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ Θεοῦ . Ἐν ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς κρίνατε· πρέπον ἐστὶ γυναῖκα ἀκατακάλυπτον τῷ Θεῷ

προσεύχεσθαι; οὐδὲ ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ διδάσκει ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ἀνὴρ μὲν, ἐὰν κομᾷ, ἀτίμια