There are two passages, and this is one of them, from which there has been derived by the Puritan and by ascetic “Christian” teachers, the doctrine that it is wicked for women to wear jewelry and precious stones. They have not been so particular about plaiting the hair, that I know of, although that comes in under condemnation in the same way. But the whole point is lost where it is fixed on these things. The point is, that one should not expend the whole of life on making the outside beautiful, but that one should see to it that the inside is adorned also. You are not to cheat the soul of all its gems and virtues for the sake of making yourself attractive exteriorly by adornments of that kind. That is the point, but it has been commuted into a general declaration against ornaments of beauty—whether of the hair, or of the apparel, or of precious stones.