Ring
“Pythagorean prohibition”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a ring · the ring
spoken of as
1 expressionThe ring“seal of the laver”1 mention
De Pudicitia (Latin)
The ring too he received then for the first time, with which, being questioned, he seals the compact of faith;
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Stromata
An engraved ring bearing divine images, forbidden by Pythagorean precept as by Mosaic law.
Again, Pythagoras enjoins not to wear a ring, nor to engrave on it images of the gods — just as Moses long before plainly laid down in law that one must make no carved or molten or moulded or painted statue and likeness, that we may not cleave to things of sense, but pass over to the things of mind.
De Pudicitia
Symbolic ring given in the prodigal son allegory, representing baptism's seal.
The ring too he received then for the first time, with which, being questioned, he seals the compact of faith;