§22#2item cum dicit naturam ipsam docere uelandum feminis esse, quae capillum pro tegumento et ornamento mulieribus assignarit, nonne idem tegumentum et idem honor capitis uirginibus quoque adscriptus est? si mulieri turpe est radi, et uirgini perinde.
Likewise, when he says that nature itself teaches that females ought to be veiled, in that it has assigned hair to women as a covering and ornament, has not the same covering and the same honor of the head been assigned to virgins as well? If it is shameful for a woman to be shorn, it is equally so for a virgin.
in quibus ergo una condicio capitis deputatur, una et disciplina capitis exigitur, etiam ad eas uirgines, quas pueritia defendit; a primo enim femina nominata est.
Therefore, in those for whom one condition of the head is deputed, one discipline of the head also is required, even toward those virgins whom childhood defends; for from the beginning she was named female.
sic denique et Israel obseruat.
Finally, Israel also observes this.
sed si non obseruaret, nostra lex ampliata atque suppleta defenderet sibi adiectionem.
But if it did not observe it, our law, enlarged and supplemented, would defend its own addition for itself.
uirginibus quoque iniciens uelamentum excusetur.
By imposing a veil on virgins as well, let our law be justified.
nunc aetas, quae sexum suum ignorat, simplicitatis priuilegium teneat.
Now let the age that is ignorant of its own sex hold the privilege of simplicity.
nam et Eua et Adam, ubi eis contigit sapere, texerunt statim quod agnouerant.
For both Eve and Adam, as soon as it happened to them to know, immediately covered what they had recognized.
certe in quibus iam pueritia mutauit, sicut naturae, ita et disciplinae debet aetas esse munifica.
Certainly, in those for whom childhood has already changed, the age ought to be generous to discipline, just as it is to nature.
nam et membris et officiis mulieribus resignantur.
For both in limbs and in functions, they are resigned to being women.
nulla uirgo est ex quo potest nubere, quoniam aetas iam in ea nupsit suo uiro, id est tempori.
There is no virgin from the time she is able to marry, since the age in her has already married its own husband, that is, time.
sed aliqua se deo uouit.
But some woman has vowed herself to God.
tamen et crinem exinde transfigurat et omnem habitum ad mulieris conuertit.
Nevertheless, she changes her hair from then on and converts all her attire to that of a woman.
totum ergo asseueret et totum uirginis praestet: quod propter deum abscondit, plene obumbret.
Let her therefore assert the whole and present the whole of a virgin: what she hides for God's sake, let her fully overshadow.
interest nostra, quod dei gratia exerceatur, solius dei conscientiae commendare, ne, quod a deo speramus, ab homine compensemus.
It is our concern, that what is practiced by the grace of God should be commended to the conscience of God alone, lest we compensate from man what we hope for from God.
quid denudas ante deum quod ante homines tegis? uerecundior eris in publico quam in ecclesia? si dei gratia est, et accepisti, quid gloriaris, inquit, quasi non acceperis? quid alias ostentatione tui iudicas? an alias gloria tua ad bonum inuitas? atqui et ipsa periclitaris amittere, si gloriaris, et alias ad eadem pericula cogis.
Why do you expose before God what you cover before men? Will you be more modest in public than in the church? If it is the grace of God, and you received it, why do you glory, as he says, as if you had not received it? Why do you judge others by the ostentation of yourself? Or do you invite others to good by your glory? Yet you yourself run the risk of losing it if you glory, and you force others to the same dangers.
facile eluditur quod affectione gloriae assumitur.
What is assumed through the affection of glory is easily eluded.
uelare uirgo, si uirgo es; debes enim erubescere.
Veil yourself, virgin, if you are a virgin; for you ought to blush.
si uirgo es, plures oculos pati noli.
If you are a virgin, do not suffer many eyes.
nemo miretur in tuam faciem; nemo mendacium tuum sentiat.
Let no one marvel at your face; let no one perceive your lie.
bene mentiris nuptam, si caput ueles.
You lie well as a married woman if you veil your head.
immo mentiri non uideris; nupsisti enim Christo.
Nay, you do not seem to lie; for you have married Christ.
illi carnem tuam tradidisti, age pro mariti tui disciplina.
To Him you have surrendered your flesh; act according to the discipline of your husband.
si nuptas alienas uelari iubet, suas utique multo magis.
If he commands other men's wives to be veiled, much more surely his own.
sed non puta institutionem uniuscuiusque antecessoris commouendam.
But do not think that the institution of each predecessor is to be moved.
multi alienae consuetudini prudentiam suam et constantiam eius addicunt.
Many surrender their own prudence and its constancy to another's custom.
ne compellantur uelari, certe uoluntarias prohiberi non oportet;
Even if they are not compelled to be veiled, certainly the voluntary ones ought not to be prohibited.
quae se etiam uirgines negare non possunt, concedo abuti in fama sua conscientiae apud deum securitate.
As for those who cannot even deny that they are virgins, I allow them to abuse in their reputation the security of their conscience before God.
de illis tamen, quae sponsis dicantur, constanter super meum modulum pronuntiare contestarique possum uelandas ex ea die esse qua ad primum uiri corpus osculo et dextera expauerint.
Concerning those, however, who are betrothed to fiancés, I can confidently pronounce and contest beyond my own measure that they ought to be veiled from that day on which they trembled at the first contact of their husband's body by kiss and right hand.
omnia enim in his praenupserunt, et aetas per maturitatem, et caro per aetatem, et spiritus per conscientiam, et pudor per osculi experimentum, et spes per expectationem, et mens per uoluntatem.
For in them all things have already pre-married: the age through maturity, the flesh through age, the spirit through conscience, the shame through the experience of the kiss, the hope through expectation, and the mind through will.
satisque nobis exemplo Rebecca est, quae sponso demonstrato tantum notitiae eius nubendo uelata est.
And the example of Rebecca is sufficient for us, who, when her fiancé was pointed out, was veiled by marrying him with only so much knowledge of him.