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| The History of Susanna Teaches Circumspection with the Eyes and in Society.
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Chapter XIII.—The
History of Susanna Teaches Circumspection with the Eyes and in
Society.
Hast thou not read, and dost thou not know,
concerning those elders who were in the days of Susanna, who, because
they were constantly with women, and looking upon the beauty which was
another’s,486
| 486 Susanna having a
husband, Joachim. | fell into the
depths of wantonness, and were not able to keep themselves in a chaste
mind,487
| 487 Lit.
“a mind of chasteness.” | but were overcome by a depraved
disposition, and came suddenly488
upon the
blessed Susanna to corrupt her. But she did not consent to their
foul passion, but cried unto God, and God saved her out of the hands of
the bad old men. Does it not, therefore, behove us to tremble and
be afraid, forasmuch as these old men, judges and elders of the people
of God, fell from their dignity because of a woman? For they did
not keep in mind that which is said: “Look thou not on the
beauty which is another’s;” and, “The beauty of woman
has destroyed many;”489
and “With
a married woman do not sit;”490
and that,
again, in which it says: “Is there any one that puts
fire in his bosom, and does not burn his clothes;”491
or, “Does a man walk on fire, and his
feet are not scorched? So whosoever goeth in to another
man’s wife is not pure from evil, and whosoever comes near to her
shall not escape.”492
And again it
says: “Thou shalt not long after the beauty a woman, lest
she take thee captive with her eyelids;”493
and, “Thou shalt not look upon a maiden, lest thou perish through
desire of her;”494
and, “With a
woman that sings beautifully thou shalt not constantly
be;”495
and, “Let him
that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”496
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