Luxury
has deranged all things; it has disgraced man. A luxurious niceness seeks
everything, attempts everything, forces everything, coerces nature. Men play
the part of women, and women that of men, contrary to nature; women are at once
wives and husbands: no passage is closed against libidinousness; and their
promiscuous lechery is a public institution, and luxury is domesticated. …
Such was
predicted of old, and the result is notorious: the whole earth has now become
full of fornication and wickedness. I admire the ancient legislators of the
Romans: these detested effeminacy of conduct; and the giving of the body to
feminine purposes, contrary to the law of nature. … What reason is there in the
law’s prohibiting a man from “wearing woman’s clothing “? Is it not that it
would have us to be manly, and not to be effeminate neither in person and
actions, nor in thought and word? …
The apostle
very firmly assails them. “Be not deceived; neither adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers,” and whatever else he adds to these, “shall inherit
the kingdom of God.” And if we are called to the kingdom of God, let us walk
worthy of the kingdom, loving God and our neighbor. … For the love meant is the
love of God. “And this is the love of God,” says John, “that we keep His
commandments.”
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