Loins girded
Perhaps for this reason John the Baptist too, since he was perfect, had a leather belt around his loin — it being shown that he had put to death there all his seed-motion. The leather shows deadness: deadness had filled his whole nature.
Greek
Τούτῳ τάχα τῷ λόγῳ καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστής, ἐπεὶ τέλ[ει]ιος ἦν, εἶχεν ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, δηλουμένου ὅτι νενέκρωκεν ἐκεῖ πᾶσαν τὴν κίνησιν αὐτοῦ τὴν σπερματικήν, τοῦ δέρματος νεκρότητα δηλοῦντος ὅτι ἡ νεκρότης ὅλην αὐτοῦ περιέ[π]λησεν τὴν φύσιν.