{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030765.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030765.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030765.htm","text":"But that point which is promiscuously observed throughout the churches, whether virgins ought to be veiled or no, must be treated of. For they who allow to virgins immunity from head-covering, appear to rest on this; that the apostle has not defined \u201cvirgins\u201d by name, but \u201cwomen,\u201d 8873 as \u201cto be veiled;\u201d nor the sex generally, so as to say \u201cfemales,\u201d but a class of the sex, by saying \u201cwomen:\u201d for if he had named the sex by saying \u201cfemales,\u201d he would have made his limit absolute for every woman; but while he names one class of the sex, he separates another class by being silent. For, they say, he might either have named \u201cvirgins\u201d specially; or generally, by a compendious term, \u201cfemales.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: Of Vi...","type":"page"}