The Instructor 3.11.66

Naturally, then, in those who have excess in their discharges, urine and stools abound, and other residues too, and also sweat, since the food is not distributed to the body but poured out into superfluities. From this lusts too are stirred, the superfluity flowing to the organs of generation. So by moderate movements this superfluity must be dissolved and diffused into digestion, by which beauty is reddened. It is absurd for those made “in the image and likeness of God,” as though dishonoring the archetype, to bring in foreign cosmetics, preferring human mischief to divine workmanship. The Instructor bids women come “in decent apparel, adorning themselves with modesty and self-control,” “being subject to their own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, seeing,” he says, “your pure conduct in the word; let yours be not the outward adornment of braiding and wearing of gold or putting on of clothes, but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet