Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily XI/Chapter 30

Chapter XXX.&#8212;&#8220;Whatsoever Things are Pure.&#8221;

&#8220;But who is there to whom it is not manifest that it is better not to have intercourse with a woman in her separation, but purified and washed.&#160; And also after copulation it is proper to wash.&#160; But if you grudge to do this, recall to mind how you followed after the parts of purity when you served senseless idols; and be ashamed that now, when it is necessary to attain, I say not more, but to attain the one and whole of purity, you are more slothful.&#160; Consider, therefore, Him who made you, and you will understand who He is that casts upon you this sluggishness with respect to purity.