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The Church Fathers · c. 208
On the Veiling of Virgins
De Virginibus Velandis
Tertullian · c. 155–c. 220
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What it is
An argument that unmarried women should be veiled in church like everyone else, opening with the claim that custom must yield to truth because Christ called himself truth and not custom.
Why it lasted
A revealing window on the status of consecrated virgins in a third-century congregation, and on how quickly custom hardened.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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