Clement of Alexandria, on 1Cor 11:14

“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?”

“The Word prohibits us from doing violence to nature by boring the lobes of the ears. For why not the nose too?-so that, what was spoken, may be fulfilled: "As an ear-ring in a swine's nose, so is beauty to a woman without discretion." For, in a word, if one thinks himself made beautiful by gold, he is inferior to gold; and he that is inferior to gold is not lord of it. But to confess one's self less ornamental than the Lydian ore, how monstrous!”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.