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Clement of Alexandria: The Instructor
William Wilson; ANF02 (1885) · Translated text
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Book III. — Chapter II.—Against Embellishing the Body. (part 2)
angels, who renounced the beauty of God for a beauty which fades, and so fell from heaven to earth.Edition note 1
The Shechemites, too, were punished by an overthrow for dishonouring the holy virgin. The grave was their punishment, and the monument of their ignominy leads to salvation.