Heathens / the Nations
“pagans”
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the heathen · the nations · the gentiles · the women of the nations
spoken of as
1 expressionheathen/nations1 mention
De Cultu Feminarum (Latin)
For even if any modesty can be believed in among the heathen, it is so far established imperfect and uncomposed, that, although in mind it acts to some extent tenacious of itself, yet in the licenses of dress it dissolves itself, after the perversity of the heathen, coveting that whose effect it shuns.
in the texts
Ad Uxorem
Non-Christian peoples, whose customs are repeatedly cited as points of comparison, warning, or analogy.
But if those who have are bound to obliterate what they have, how much more are those who have not forbidden to seek again what they have not — so that she whose husband has departed from these things should thereafter enjoin upon her sex the rest of abstinence from marrying, which most of the heathen women perform as funeral rites to the memory of their dearest husbands.
Are we to seek out burdens that are avoided even by most of the heathen, that are compelled by laws, that are stormed against by murders of children — burdens most troublesome to us at last, and as dangerous as they are to our faith?
Shall earthly disciplines be held stricter than heavenly precepts — so that heathen women, joined to strangers, lose their own liberty, while ours join servants of the devil to themselves and remain in their own standing?
De Cultu Feminarum
Non-Christian peoples, used throughout as the negative model of dress, modesty, and belief
For even if any modesty can be believed in among the heathen, it is so far established imperfect and uncomposed, that, although in mind it acts to some extent tenacious of itself, yet in the licenses of dress it dissolves itself, after the perversity of the heathen, coveting that whose effect it shuns.
"Ever since she became a Christian, she goes about the poorer.