{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080794.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080794.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080794.htm","text":"Chapter VII.\u2014A Distinction with a Difference.\n\u201cThen Appion said: \u2018Do you not think it is the same thing, whether you obtain her by magic, or by deceiving her with words?\u2019 Then said I: \u2018Not altogether the same; for these differ widely from one another. For he who constrains an unwilling woman by the force of magic, subjects himself to the most terrible punishment, as having plotted against a chaste woman; but he who persuades her with words, and puts the choice in her own power and will, does not force her. And I am of opinion, that he who has persuaded a woman will not suffer so great punishment as he who has forced her. Therefore, if you can persuade her, I shall be thankful to you when I have obtained her; but otherwise, I had rather die than force her against her will.\u2019","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter VII","type":"page"}