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Chapter 6

Remember the jealousy of some women

1 Τούτοις τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ὁσίως πολιτευσαμένοις συνηθροίσθη πολὺ πλῆθος ἐκλεκτῶν, οἵτινες πολλαῖς αἰκίαις καὶ βασάνοις διὰ ζῆλος παθόντες ὑπόδειγμα κάλλιστον ἐγένοντο ἐν ἡμῖν. To these men having lived as pious citizens assembled a vast crowd of the elect, who through many mistreatments and tortures, because of jealousy, set a most excellent example among ourselves.
2 διὰ ζῆλος διωχθεῖσαι γυναῖκες Δαναΐδες καὶ Δίρκαι, αἰκίσματα δεινὰ καὶ ἀνόσια παθοῦσαι, ἐπὶ τὸν τῆς πίστεως βέβαιον δρόμον κατήντησαν καὶ ἔλαβον γέρας γενναῖον αἱ ἀσθενεῖς τῷ σώματι. Because of jealousy women were persecuted, after having suffered horrible and impure mistreatments as Danaids and Dircae, they safely reached the goal in the race of faith, and received a noble reward, though they were feeble in body.
3 ζῆλος ἀπηλλοτρίωσεν γαμετὰς ἀνδρῶν καὶ ἠλλοίωσεν τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἀδάμ· Τοῦτο νῦν ὀστοῦν ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων μου καὶ σὰρξ ἐκ τῆς σαρκός μου. Jealousy has estranged wives from husbands and changed the saying of our father Adam, “This now is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Gen. 2:23).
4 ζῆλος καὶ ἔρις πόλεις μεγάλας κατέστρεψεν καὶ ἔθνη μεγάλα ἐξερίζωσεν. Jealousy and strife have overthrown great cities and uprooted great nations.