“Pursue earnestly, therefore, the virtue of continence, which is modesty's agent; industry, which allows not women to be "wanderers; " frugality, which scorns the world.”
Tertullian, 3th c. — To His Wife Book I
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13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
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11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
12Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
— 1 Timothy 5:13 —
14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.