Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 22

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 89, footnote 2 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

The Shows, or De Spectaculis. (HTML)

Chapter XXIII. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 367 (In-Text, Margin)

... mind of God, who forbids the making of every likeness, and especially then the likeness of man who is His own image? The Author of truth hates all the false; He regards as adultery all that is unreal. Condemning, therefore, as He does hypocrisy in every form, He never will approve any putting on of voice, or sex, or age; He never will approve pretended loves, and wraths, and groans, and tears. Then, too, as in His law it is declared that the man is cursed who attires himself in female garments,[Deuteronomy 22] what must be His judgment of the pantomime, who is even brought up to play the woman! And will the boxer go unpunished? I suppose he received these cæstus-scars, and the thick skin of his fists, and these growths upon his ears, at his creation! God, ...