{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020150.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020150.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020150.htm","text":"And concerning chastity, the holy word teaches us not only not to sin in act, but not even in thought, not even in the heart to think of any evil, nor look on another man\u2019s wife with our eyes to lust after her. Solomon, accordingly, who was a king and a prophet, said: \u201cLet thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee: make straight paths for your feet.\u201d 661 And the voice of the Gospel teaches still more urgently concerning chastity, saying: \u201cWhosoever looketh on a woman who is not his own wife, to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.\u201d 662 \u201cAnd he that marrieth,\u201d says [the Gospel], \u201cher that is divorced from her husband, committeth adultery; and whosoever putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.\u201d 663 Because Solomon says: \u201cCan a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? So he that goeth in to a married woman shall not be innocent.\u201d 664","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: THEOPHILUS: Chapter XIII.\u2014Of Chastity.","type":"page"}