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Casting away body parts (1)

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02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices




03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



Keywords
body
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Sentences of Sextus 13:
Cast aside every part of the body that does not lead you to self control; for it is better to live continently without some body part than destructively with it. … You may see that people have saved the health of the rest of their body by chopping off and casting away parts. How much better to do this for continence?


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Sentences of Sextus 13

Bibliography

Stevenson 2002, 130Stevenson, Walter. “Eunuchs and early Christianity.” In: Shaun Tougher (ed.). Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, London: Duckworth 2002, 123-142.

Amar Annus


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