Editing Basilides (section)

===''Ethics''===
A passage from Isidore's ''Ethics'' says: "Abstain, then, from a quarrelsome woman lest you are distracted from the grace of God. But when you have rejected the fire of the seed, then pray with an undisturbed conscience. And when your prayer of thanksgiving," he says, "descends to a prayer of request, and your request is not that in future you may do right, but that you may do no wrong, then marry."<ref>{{harvnb|Hort|1911}} cites ''Strom.'' iii. 510.</ref>