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Chapter 8

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Chapter VIII.—Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife; Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to Be.

There is Joseph, faithful, and intelligent, and wise

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,

and

who

feared

God

in

everything

.

Did

not

a

woman

conceive

an

excessive

passion

for

the

beauty

of

this

chaste

and

upright

man

?

And

,

when

he

would

not

yield

and

consent

to

gratify

her

passionate

desire

,

she

cast

the

righteous

man

into

every

kind

of

distress

and

torment

,

to

within

a

little

of

death

,

by

bearing

false

witness

.

But

God

delivered

him

from

all

the

evils

that

came

upon

him

through

this

wretched

woman

.

Ye

see

,

my

brethren

,

what

distresses

the

constant

sight

of

the

person

of

the

Egyptian

woman

brought

upon

the

righteous

man

.

Therefore

,

let

us

not

be

constantly

with

women

,

nor

with

maidens

.

For

this

is

not

profitable

for

those

who

truly

wish

to

“

gird

up

their

loins

.

”

For

it

is

required

that

we

love

the

sisters

in

all

purity

and

chasteness

,

and

with

all

curbing

of

thought

,

in

the

fear

of

God

,

not

associating

constantly

with

them

,

nor

finding

access

to

them

at

every

hour

.

Notes

1
Lit. “her passion and her desire.”
2
Lit. “even to death.”
3
Luke xii. 35.