Quodsi nobis omnis impudicitia exsecranda est, cur liceat audire quod loqui non licet, cum etiam scur-rilitatem et omne vanum verbum iudicatum a deo sciamus? Cur aeque liceat videre quae facere flagitium est? Cur quae ore prolata communicant hominem, ea per aures et oculos admissa non videantur hominem communicare, cum spiritui appareant aures et oculi nec possit mundus praestari cuius apparitores []inquinantur? Habes igitur et theatri interdictionem de interdictione impudicitiae.
But if all impurity is to be abominated by us, why should it be lawful to hear what we may not speak, when we know that buffoonery and every idle word is judged by God? Why in like manner should it be lawful to see what it is sin to do? Why should we suppose that those things, which spoken by the mouth defile the man,a should not defile the man when welcomed in by eyes and ears? Ears and eyes are the servants of the spirit, nor can the spirit be clean whose servants are dirty. So you have the theatre prohibited in the prohibition of uncleanness.
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