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Now consider what follows from your opinion: whatever is believed good should not be covered out of modesty.But I have shown that this desire naturally implanted in the sexes is not evil, since it belongs to God’s work.Accordingly, you must abandon either your impiety or your modesty.But why do I say this?“If the Ethiopian changes his skin or the leopard its spots” (Jeremiah 13:23), then you too will be washed clean of the Manichaean mysteries.
Attende sane nunc quale sit, quod de tua opinione colligitur; videlicet operiendum pudore non esse, quidquid bonum creditur. Nos autem docuimus voluntatem illam naturaliter sexibus inditam, tam malam non esse, quam ad Dei operam pertinentem. Ac per hoc tu aut impietatem tuam deseres, aut pudorem. Sed quid nos haec autem? Si mutabit Aethiops pellem suam, aut pardus varietatem [n69] ; ita et tu a Manichaeorum mysteriis elueris.