Clement of Rome, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VII, Two Epistles Concerning Virginity… (1885)
“ Chapter X.—David’s Sin, So Admonitory to Us Weak Men.Does not the case of David instruct thee, whom God “found a man after His heart,” [1] one faithful, faultless, pious, true? This same man saw the beauty of a woman—I mean of Bathsheba—when he saw her as she was cleansing herself and washing unclothed. ”
