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501 II, 5 | V. OF SIN AND DANGER INCURRED EVEN WITH A "TOLERANT" HUSBAND.~"
502 II, 8 | The sick is visited, the indigent relieved, with freedom.
503 II, 8 | property, unite themselves indiscriminately with the ignoble and the
504 II, 3 | fellowship of life, and indivisible intimacy! Any and every
505 I, 8concl| of our own working. The indulgences granted by the Lord are
506 I, 8concl| which is modesty's agent; industry, which allows not women
507 I, 6 | do with the type of that "inextinguishable fire," keeping watch over
508 II, 8 | irksome to wed a believer inferior to herself in estate, destined
509 II, 8 | the more any is rich, and inflated with the name of "matron,"
510 I, 3 | and manifest by its own inherent purity. There are some things
511 I, 1intro| to be received before the inheritance be divided,--(the legacy,
512 II, 6 | things are strange, all inimical, all condemned; aimed by
513 II, 3 | cases (setting aside the injury done to the flesh which
514 II, 8 | CONCLUSION.~Let us further inquire, as if we were in very deed
515 II, 8 | there need for doubt, and inquiry, and repeated deliberation,
516 II, 8 | if we were in very deed inquisitors of divine sentences, whether
517 I, 3 | former on account of the insidiousnesses of temptations, the latter
518 I, 8concl| through winebibbing they insinuate any and every evil; through
519 I, 6 | widowhood! At Rome, for instance, they who have to do with
520 I, 1intro| even at this early period instilling into you the counsel of (
521 I, 2 | simply) it was necessary to institute (certain things) which should
522 I, 7 | Lord of salvation as an instrument for attaining eternity,
523 I, 3 | that Christ's advent was intended to dissolve wedlock, (and)
524 II, 8 | tenacious of discipline interdict their own slaves from marrying
525 I, 2 | in the synagogue, yet (to interpret simply) it was necessary
526 II, 2 | forbid that he who thus interprets (the passage) be wittingly
527 II, 6 | fosterings of faith by the interspersion of the Scriptures (in conversation)?
528 I, 8concl| s quotation of it, "Ill interviews good morals do corrupt."
529 II, 5 | affliction in avoiding his intolerance. "Cast not," saith He, "
530 I, 6 | husbands, but they even introduce other wives to them in their
531 II, 7 | the Lord, are of course introduced by the Evil One. A sign
532 I, 2 | succeed the Word of God introducing the spiritual circumcision.
533 II, 6 | mention of God (arises)? what invocation of Christ? Where are the
534 I, 6 | sacerdotal offices which involve both virginity and widowhood!
535 II, 8 | Christian believer it is irksome to wed a believer inferior
536 I, 6 | husbands, of course, smiling on it--all contact (with males),
537 I, 1intro| solicitude arising from carnal jealousy will, in the day of the
538 I, 2 | in the last days of the (Jewish) age, either cut off the
539 II, 6 | formerly) she was expecting to judge? whose hand will she yearn
540 I, 6 | virginity. To the Achaean Juno, at the town Aegium, a virgin
541 I, 8concl| through the prophet: "Do thou justly to the widow and to the
542 I, 6 | inextinguishable fire," keeping watch over the omens of
543 I, 7 | principle of rivalry. For the king of heathendom, the chief
544 I, 6 | desire! after the celestial kingdom! But if, while the marriage-tie
545 II, 8 | the rich, "whose are the kingdoms of the heavens," the rich
546 II, 6 | demons, at all solemnities of kings, at the beginning of the
547 I, 4 | field; who, without any labour on their part, feeds the
548 I, 4 | dotal gifts. Thus they have laid hold for themselves of an
549 II, 6 | with laurel, and hung with lanterns, as from some new consistory
550 I, 1intro| take leave to treat of at large.~
551 II, 8 | that they may not run into lascivious excess, desert their duties
552 | last
553 II, 1intro| OF THIS SECOND BOOK.~Very lately, best beloved fellow-servant
554 | later
555 II, 6 | by a gate wreathed with laurel, and hung with lanterns,
556 I, 4 | from another's store to lavish expenditure which you do
557 I, 3 | later time, is that I may lay a foundation for teaching
558 II, 7 | annoy her, less active in laying snares for her, less diligent
559 I, 5 | sets a brand upon the very leading vices of the flesh and of
560 I, 7 | is the case,) not even a leaf falls from off a tree without
561 I, 3 | better than this "good," we learn from the apostle, who permits
562 I, 1intro| shall be profitable, we take leave to treat of at large.~
563 II, 1intro| I. REASONS WHICH LED TO THE WRITING OF THIS SECOND
564 I, 5 | enough, so that we have leisure for children! Burdens must
565 II, 1intro| for your benefit at some length into the question what course
566 II, 5 | your pearls to swine, lest they trample them to pieces,
567 II, 3 | in accordance with the letter of the apostle, who says
568 I, 8concl| s benefactor is put on a level with the widow herself,
569 II, 5 | to conceal them, the more liable to suspicion you will make
570 I, 8concl| which are of the divine liberality, some of our own working.
571 II, 8 | luxurious, or mutilated for licentious, purposes. Some take up
572 | likely
573 I, 4 | clothes with such grace the lilies of the field; who, without
574 I, 3 | but not victory. But if we listen to the apostle, forgetting
575 I, 4 | dedicated). With Him they live; with Him they converse;
576 I, 3 | straits of the times. Now, by looking into the reason thus given
577 I, 7 | not loosing. You have been loosed from a wife; seek not binding."
578 I, 7 | sap the apostle; "seek not loosing. You have been loosed from
579 I, 2 | afterward deserve to be either lopped off or modified. For the
580 II, 8 | if united to strangers, lose their liberty; ours conjoin
581 II, 5 | property, or else by the loss of their faith.~
582 I, 6 | than for what has been lost not to be yearned after.
583 I, 3 | is a dissuasion from the lowest. A thing is not "good" merely
584 I, 8concl| convey a spirit of rivalry in lust. Not one of such women knows
585 I, 4 | German bearers, which all add lustre to the glory of nuptials;
586 II, 6 | new consistory of public lusts; she will have to sit with
587 II, 8 | sought out for themselves for luxurious, or mutilated for licentious,
588 | made
589 II, 8 | on as the cause of this madness, except the weakness of
590 II, 5 | engaged in some work of magic? Will not your husband know
591 II, 8 | to seek a husband apt for maintaining their sedan, and their mules,
592 I, 4 | who have no care about maintenance, unless it be that we distrust
593 I, 5 | are avoided even by the majority of the Gentiles, who are
594 I, 3 | borrowing the female from the male, recombined between themselves,
595 I, 6 | on it--all contact (with males), even as far as'the kiss
596 I, 3 | reason why" marrying" is mare good is (merely) that "burning"
597 II, 7 | the visible proofs of some marked (divine) regard, a terror
598 II, 5 | pearls" are the distinctive marks of even your daily conversation.
599 I, 6 | her sex by abstinence from marriage--abstinence which numbers
600 I, 6 | kingdom! But if, while the marriage-tie is still intact, abstinence
601 II, 4 | creep into prison to kiss a martyr's bonds? nay, truly, to
602 I, 3 | between themselves, in the matrimonial computation, the two bodies
603 I, 6 | consent cancel the debt of matrimony-voluntary eunuchs for the sake of
604 II, 8 | inflated with the name of "matron," the more capacious house
605 II, 2 | II. OF THE APOSTLE'S MEANING IN I COR. VII. 12-14.~Therefore,
606 I, 2 | circumcision. Therefore, by means of the wide licence of those
607 II, 6 | husband ofttimes in club meetings, oft-times in taverns; and,
608 II, 6 | these (labours), on all the memorial days of demons, at all solemnities
609 I, 5 | dealing in marriage and merchandise; but when He says, "They
610 I, 8concl| to the care of the divine mercy, in proportion as they are
611 I, 5 | marry daily, and in the midst of our marrying let us be
612 | might
613 II, 7 | spy over her. He has felt "mighty works; he has seen experimental
614 II, 1intro| continence of the flesh which ministers to widowhood, the more pardonable
615 I, 4 | sufficiency," which is suitable to moderation and modesty, Presume, I
616 I, 2 | be either lopped off or modified. For the Law was (in due
617 I, 6 | many are there who from the moment of their baptism set the
618 II, 2 | understanding generally this monition regarding married believers,
619 II, 6 | at the beginning of the month, she will be agitated by
620 I, 1intro| TREATISE. DISAVOWAL OF PERSONAL MOTIVES IN WRITING IT.~I HAVE thought
621 I, 2 | only to marry, but even to multiply wives. There were concubines,
622 II, 5 | simply endure them, without murmuring, without suspicion whether
623 II, 8 | no trembling greeting, no mute benediction. Between the
624 II, 8 | themselves for luxurious, or mutilated for licentious, purposes.
625 I, 6 | many, again, who by equal mutual consent cancel the debt
626 I, 8concl| sanctity shall have the nearest vision of the face of God,
627 I, 5 | undertaken, nothing of all these "necessities" affects the servants of
628 I, 4 | servants--not indeed ponderous necklaces, not burdensome garments,
629 I, 4 | promising that He knows what is needful for each of His servants--
630 II, 1intro| one may with more impunity neglect an "advice" than an "order;"
631 I, 8concl| belly;" and so, too, what is neighbour to the belly. These considerations,
632 II, 6 | with lanterns, as from some new consistory of public lusts;
633 II, 8 | which) angels carry back the news of (to heaven), (which)
634 | next
635 II, 8 | Gentiles. Most Gentile women, noble in extraction and wealthy
636 II, 4 | being taken from his side by nocturnal convocations, if need so
637 | none
638 II, 5 | curiosity. Shall you escape notice when you sign your bed, (
639 I, 4 | and sealed before the Lord nought is necessary but perseverance.~
640 | nowhere
641 I, 6 | marriage--abstinence which numbers of Gentile women devote
642 II, 3 | Gentile to boot? For in obeying a Gentile she will carry
643 I, 8concl| grace; the things which are objects of man's striving are attained
644 II, 8 | Church cements, and the oblation confirms, and the benediction
645 II, 3 | undergoes a daily process of obliteration by unbelieving intercourse? "
646 I, 1intro| entrust to your honour the observance of the provision. For in
647 II, 4 | if there are fasts to be observed, the husbandthat same day
648 I, 7 | detrimental to faith, how obstructive to holiness, second marriages
649 I, 4 | strong;" for each clause occurs in one and the same sentence.
650 II, 6 | will be agitated by the odour of incense. And she will
651 II, 7 | pleasing to the Lord, of course offend the Lord, are of course
652 II, 4 | to exchange the kiss? to offer water for the saints' feet?
653 I, 7 | continence; as soon as it offers itself, let us resolve to
654 I, 6 | Satan, endure sacerdotal offices which involve both virginity
655 I, 4 | as dowries; from Him, as oft as they desire it, they
656 II, 6 | ofttimes in club meetings, oft-times in taverns; and, wont as
657 | often
658 II, 6 | to sit with her husband ofttimes in club meetings, oft-times
659 I, 6 | keeping watch over the omens of their own (future) penalty,
660 | once
661 I, 3 | as if from this period onward I were prescribing an end
662 II, 8 | slaves, despising public opinion, provided they may but have (
663 II, 2 | reconsideration about, the Spirit has oracularly declared. For fear we should
664 I, 4 | because it is withal of nobler origin, it is our own fault if
665 I, 8concl| to the widow and to the orphan; and come ye, let us reason,
666 | otherwise
667 II, 8 | and their hair-curlers of outlandish stature? A Christian, even
668 I, 5 | of our marrying let us be overtaken, like Sodom and Gomorrah,
669 II, 5 | pieces, and turn round and overturn you also." "Your pearls"
670 I, 1intro| that I, suspicious of the pain of (anticipated) slight,
671 II, 2 | removed her marriage from the pale of the Church, and united
672 II, 8 | To such the churches look paltry. A rich man is a difficult
673 II, 1intro| are difficult that their pardon is easy. But in as far as
674 II, 1intro| ministers to widowhood, the more pardonable a thing it seems if it be
675 II, 6 | after? of whose cup will she partake? What will her husband sing
676 II, 8 | that of two believers, (partakers) of one hope, one desire,
677 II, 7 | already (as it has) the partial sanction of divine grace? "
678 II, 8 | HAPPINESS OF UNION BETWEEN PARTNERS IN THE FAITH ENLARGED ON
679 II, 4 | all the night long at the paschal solemnities? Who will, without
680 I, 2 | among our ancestors, and the patriarchs themselves, it was lawful
681 I, 3 | man who shall prove like Paul!~
682 II, 1intro| of (widowed) life, I have paused somewhat (in my urging you
683 I, 6 | omens of their own (future) penalty, in company with the (old)
684 II, 8 | prostrate themselves, together perform their fasts; mutually teaching,
685 I, 5 | all unsuitable, as being perilous to faith! For why did the
686 II, 1intro| advises them to remain permanently in that state, when he says, "
687 II, 1intro| marrying "in the Lord" is permissible, as being within our power,
688 I, 1intro| into you the counsel of (perpetual) widowhood. There will at
689 I, 5 | whatsoever pressure and persecution, with no burdensome fruit
690 II, 1intro| thing it seems if it be not persevered in. For it is then when
691 II, 8 | their lords' formal warning, persisted in intercourse with other
692 II, 3 | apostle, who says that "with persons of that kind there is to
693 I, 5 | but that ("woe") will not pertain to widows. (They) at the
694 I, 3 | among the rest of their perversities, teach the disjoining of
695 I, 4 | weaker. Now there are two phases of human weakness which
696 II, 5 | lest they trample them to pieces, and turn round and overturn
697 II, 4 | them) in her mind? If a pilgrim brother arrive, what hospitality
698 II, 1intro| he no longer advises, but plainly bids. Therefore in this
699 II, 7 | for her, less diligent in playing the spy over her. He has
700 I, 5 | THE LOVE OF OFFSPRING AS A PLEA FOR MARRIAGE.~Further reasons
701 I, 4 | rejoices in its own shame, pleads the necessity of a husband
702 I, 4 | OF THE FLESH, AND SIMILAR PLEAS.~But we read "that the flesh
703 I, 3 | married is solicitous how to please her husband." But he nowhere
704 I, 7 | To us continence has been pointed out by the Lord of salvation
705 II, 5 | suspicion whether it be bread or poison? Some, (it is true,) do
706 I, 2 | MARRIAGE LAWFUL, BUT NOT POLYGAMY.~We do not indeed forbid
707 I, 4 | His servants--not indeed ponderous necklaces, not burdensome
708 I, 7 | of heathendom, the chief pontiff, to marry a second time
709 II, 4 | s, and indeed to all the poorer, cottages? Who will willingly
710 II, 8 | continue in their (former) position? Forsooth, they will deny
711 I, 8concl| has seen. The virgin may possibly be held the happier, but
712 II, 8 | husband! For if it is "the pour," not the rich, "whose are
713 I, 4 | matrimony. The first and most powerful is that which arises from
714 I, 4 | the Lord they assign their prayers as dowries; from Him, as
715 II, 2 | prohibits? sad that he took precaution, in the first place, against
716 I, 4 | when their husbands have preceded them (to glory), give to
717 I, 4 | of beauty or of age the precedence over holiness. They prefer
718 II, 3 | WOUNDS" REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTER.~If these things
719 I, 1intro| the ages of the ages! The precept, therefore, which I give
720 I, 6 | of holy affection. These precepts has the devil given to his
721 II, 1intro| may now, by the mention of precipitate marriages, put "an occasion
722 I, 3 | MARRIAGE GOOD: CELIBACY PREFERABLE.~But let it not be thought
723 I, 3 | preferred to them; for the preference given to the higher things
724 I, 3 | forbidden when other things are preferred to them; for the preference
725 II, 6 | she not hence recognise a prejudgment of her own damnation, in
726 I, 3 | thought that my reason for premising thus much concerning the
727 II, 2 | us to a copy of himself, prescribes no other manner of repeating
728 I, 3 | this period onward I were prescribing an end to marrying. Let
729 I, 7 | discipline of the Church and the prescription of the apostle declare,
730 II, 8 | more strict than heavenly prescripts; so that Gentile women,
731 I, 5 | received into the Lord's presence, which was the desire even
732 I, 1intro| that it is for the sake of preserving to the end for myself the
733 I, 7 | not men twice married to preside (over a Church), when he
734 II, 7 | not to be thus harassed by pressures, and straits, and hindrances,
735 I, 4 | moderation and modesty, Presume, I pray you, that you have
736 I, 5 | servants of God, so as to prevent my deeming it enough to
737 I, 6 | virgin is allotted; and the(priestesses) who rave at Delphi know
738 I, 7 | consisting) of holiness. Priesthood is (a function) of widowhood
739 I, 6 | Continent are even the priests of hell! For he has found
740 I, 7 | conformity with the devil's principle of rivalry. For the king
741 II, 4 | suffer her to creep into prison to kiss a martyr's bonds?
742 II, 3 | faith undergoes a daily process of obliteration by unbelieving
743 II, 7 | marriage of this kind is procured by the Evil One, but condemned
744 II, 3 | Or shall we "in that day" produce (our) marriage certificates
745 I, 1intro| except in that you will profit yourself. But to Christians,
746 II, 2 | saints a permission to marry promiscuously. If, however, he had given
747 I, 1intro| such impurities, does God promise to His (servants). But whether
748 I, 1intro| restoration of marriage is promised in the day of the resurrection,
749 I, 4 | be that we distrust the promises of God, and (His) care and
750 II, 2 | believers. But if he had been pronouncing absolutely, (in the words
751 II, 7 | virtue, is, by the visible proofs of some marked (divine)
752 I, 8concl| saying of His through the prophet: "Do thou justly to the
753 I, 8concl| of the divine mercy, in proportion as they are destitute of
754 II, 1intro| springs from counsel, and is proposed to the will (for acceptance
755 I, 3 | reason thus given for each proposition, it is easily discerned
756 II, 7 | in no case be carded to a prosperous end.~
757 II, 7 | after conversion) too go prosperously forward, so as not to be
758 II, 8 | Together they pray, together prostrate themselves, together perform
759 I, 1intro| from this early period, to provide for the course which you
760 II, 8 | despising public opinion, provided they may but have (husbands)
761 I, 4 | God, and (His) care and providence, who clothes with such grace
762 I, 1intro| honour the observance of the provision. For in things worldly we
763 II, 8 | benediction. Between the two echo psalms and hymns; and they mutually
764 I, 7 | s altar to be set forth pure. That whole halo which encircles
765 I, 3 | manifest by its own inherent purity. There are some things which
766 I, 8concl| very greatest hurt to the purpose of widow-hood. Through talkativeness
767 II, 8 | mutilated for licentious, purposes. Some take up with their
768 I, 8concl| are attained by earnest pursuit. Pursue earnestly, therefore,
769 II, 8 | excess, desert their duties purvey their lords' goods to strangers.
770 II, 5 | it matters not in which quarter you sin; whether in regard
771 I, 8concl| sanctified by the apostle's quotation of it, "Ill interviews good
772 I, 2 | the seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment
773 I, 3 | than, when apprehended and racked, to deny (the faith). And
774 I, 1intro| confusion. The question raised by the Sadducees has yielded
775 | rather
776 I, 6 | and the(priestesses) who rave at Delphi know not marriage.
777 I, 7 | even if you do not "sin" in re-marrying, still he says "pressure
778 II, 7 | so as to make him less ready to annoy her, less active
779 II, 6 | And will she not hence recognise a prejudgment of her own
780 I, 3 | the female from the male, recombined between themselves, in the
781 II, 2 | what there might have been reconsideration about, the Spirit has oracularly
782 II, 2 | events, there is no need for reconsidering; for what there might have
783 II, 3 | of contumacy. Let us now recount the other dangers or wounds (
784 II, 1intro| have been any causes for my recurring to that point also in addressing
785 I, 2 | age, either cut off the redundancies or regulated the disorders.~
786 I, 7 | the will of God. Besides, reflect, I advise you, that there
787 II, 6 | Where the Spirit? where refreshment? where the divine benediction?
788 II, 8 | straits, in persecutions, in refreshments. Neither hides (ought) from
789 II, 2 | generally this monition regarding married believers, they
790 I, 8concl| what you have never had to regret. More glorious is the continence
791 II, 1intro| will (for acceptance or rejection): the other descends from
792 I, 4 | after beauty's harvest, rejoices in its own shame, pleads
793 II, 8 | is visited, the indigent relieved, with freedom. Alms (are
794 II, 1intro| unmarried, advises them to remain permanently in that state,
795 I, 5 | apostle), "is compressed. It remaineth that they who have wives
796 II, 3 | III. REMARKS ON SOME OF THE "DANGERS
797 II, 1intro| good, but not even in their remarriage have chosen to be mindful
798 II, 2 | to a Gentile, and when I remembered that this had in days gone
799 II, 2 | these days a certain woman removed her marriage from the pale
800 I, 4 | authority and of comfort, or to render it safe from evil rumours.
801 I, 1intro| whom be honour, glory, renown, dignity, and power, now
802 II, 8 | doubt, and inquiry, and repeated deliberation, whether he
803 I, 2 | race, and devised for the replenishment of the earth and the furnishing
804 I, 1intro| of her whom they chose to represent as having been married to
805 I, 7 | encircles the Church is represented (as consisting) of holiness.
806 I, 4 | ambition, each is to be repudiated. Fleshly concupiscence claims
807 II, 8 | capacious house does she require for her burdens, as it were
808 II, 4 | satisfaction according to the requirements of discipline; having at
809 II, 5 | whose secrets they keep in reserve against the danger which
810 I, 7 | it offers itself, let us resolve to accept it, that what
811 I, 5 | before us (to glory) (in respect, I mean, of the distresses
812 I, 1intro| departure from the world, no restoration of marriage is promised
813 I, 7 | deceases. Why should you restore what GOD has put an end
814 I, 3 | granted to the old, and the restraint imposed on the later time,
815 I, 1intro| There will at that day be no resumption of voluptuous disgrace between
816 I, 4 | forsooth, heavenly things in return--to lord it, (namely,) in
817 II, 6 | IN HEATHENISH RITES, AND REVELS.~The handmaid of God dwells
818 I, 3 | followers after the better rewards. Thus, albeit he does not "
819 I, 2 | one wife, one woman, one rib. We grant, that among our
820 I, 8concl| which is aware of its own right, which knows what it has
821 II, 8 | on earth children do not rightly and lawfully wed without
822 I, 5 | through the pleasure of rioting, the other though the greed
823 II, 5 | when even by night you rise to pray? Will you not be-thought
824 II, 1intro| we do not obey, we run a risk, because one may with more
825 II, 6 | TAKE PART IN HEATHENISH RITES, AND REVELS.~The handmaid
826 I, 6 | virginity and widowhood! At Rome, for instance, they who
827 I, 6 | wives to them in their own room--the husbands, of course,
828 I, 4 | in another's family; to roost on another's wealth; to
829 I, 6 | For he has found a way to ruin men _ even in good pursuits;
830 II, 1intro| chosen to be mindful of the rule that "above all they marry
831 I, 4 | render it safe from evil rumours. To meet these its counsels,
832 I, 6 | their own Satan, endure sacerdotal offices which involve both
833 II, 8 | danger of ensuing) torment; sacrifices (attended) without scruple;
834 II, 2 | kind, which he prohibits? sad that he took precaution,
835 I, 1intro| The question raised by the Sadducees has yielded to the Lord'
836 I, 4 | comfort, or to render it safe from evil rumours. To meet
837 II, 2 | grace of God, moreover, sanctifies that which it finds. Thus,
838 II, 2 | strange flesh," cannot sanctify that (flesh) in (union with)
839 II, 7 | as it has) the partial sanction of divine grace? " Because,
840 I, 7 | have been bound to a wife," sap the apostle; "seek not loosing.
841 I, 6 | in honour of their own Satan, endure sacerdotal offices
842 II, 4 | events, she is unable to give satisfaction according to the requirements
843 I, 1intro| not that you will on that score confer any benefit on me,
844 I, 8concl| wanderers;" frugality, which scorns the world. Follow companies
845 II, 6 | the interspersion of the Scriptures (in conversation)? Where
846 II, 8 | sacrifices (attended) without scruple; daily diligence (discharged)
847 I, 6 | of their baptism set the seal (of virginity) upon their
848 I, 4 | To widowhood signed and sealed before the Lord nought is
849 II, 8 | the benediction signs and seals; (which) angels carry back
850 II, 2 | the power of not marrying. Secondly, if, according to the Scripture,
851 II, 5 | know what it is which you secretly taste before (taking) any
852 I, 5 | our own salvation we are secure enough, so that we have
853 II, 8 | apt for maintaining their sedan, and their mules, and their
854 I, 8concl| modesty; through idleness they seduce one from strictness; through
855 I, 6 | have not, prohibited from seeking a second time what they
856 II, 8 | Such things when Christ sees and hears, He joys. To these
857 I, 4 | then, do we, too prone to self-excuse, put forward (in our defence)
858 I, 3 | of the consortship of the self-same material substance. In short,
859 I, 2 | woman, blest by God as the seminary of the human race, and devised
860 I, 5 | have them, we desire to send before us (to glory) (in
861 II, 8 | hears, He joys. To these He sends His own I peace. Where two (
862 II, 8 | deed inquisitors of divine sentences, whether they be lawfully (
863 I, 4 | needful for each of His servants--not indeed ponderous necklaces,
864 II, 3 | obey God. And how can she serve two lords the Lord, and
865 II, 8 | discipline, one and the same service? Both (are) brethren, both
866 I, 7 | do you, by repeating the servitude of matrimony, spurn the
867 I, 5 | marrying and buying," He sets a brand upon the very leading
868 II, 3 | whereas in other cases (setting aside the injury done to
869 I, 1intro| as having been married to seven brothers successively, wound
870 I, 4 | harvest, rejoices in its own shame, pleads the necessity of
871 II, 3 | discharged with honour (shown) to the very necessity (
872 II, 2 | an unbelieving wife." It shows that it is the duty of one
873 II, 7 | heathen men are found not to shrink in horror from Christian
874 II, 8 | from the other; neither shuns the other; neither is troublesome
875 II, 8 | troublesome to the other. The sick is visited, the indigent
876 I, 8concl| widowhood enjoys in the sight of God, there is a brief
877 I, 4 | things earthly. To widowhood signed and sealed before the Lord
878 II, 8 | there is) no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting,
879 II, 8 | confirms, and the benediction signs and seals; (which) angels
880 II, 5 | they make the wages of silence; while they threaten them,
881 I, 4 | INFIRMITY OF THE FLESH, AND SIMILAR PLEAS.~But we read "that
882 II, 2 | let him not dismiss her; similarly, let not a believing woman,
883 | since
884 II, 6 | partake? What will her husband sing to her, or she to her husband?
885 II, 1intro| myself to perseverance in single husbandhood and widowhood,
886 I, 8concl| to speak of the good of single-husbandhood; for their "god," as the
887 I, 2 | therefore permitted, yet Singly. For Adam was the one husband
888 I, 4 | you apply the examples of sisters of ours whose names are
889 II, 6 | lusts; she will have to sit with her husband ofttimes
890 I, 1intro| the pain of (anticipated) slight, am even at this early period
891 II, 3 | indeed a sin, but a very small one?" whereas in other cases (
892 I, 6 | the husbands, of course, smiling on it--all contact (with
893 I, 3 | albeit he does not "east a snare upon us," he points out
894 II, 7 | her, less active in laying snares for her, less diligent in
895 II, 4 | for the saints' feet? to snatch (somewhat for them) from
896 I, 5 | let us be overtaken, like Sodom and Gomorrah, by that day
897 I, 3 | holy; but the married is solicitous how to please her husband."
898 | sometimes
899 I, 6 | far as'the kiss of their sons, being forbidden them; and
900 I, 7 | opportunity of continence; as soon as it offers itself, let
901 I, 4 | flesh is weak;" and hence we soothe ourselves in some cases.
902 I, 4 | to the female sex, as a source of authority and of comfort,
903 I, 4 | another's wealth; to extort splendour from another's store to
904 II, 7 | forbidden ground unsolicited and spontaneously, is (quite) another thing.
905 II, 5 | trample on, that they may make sport of such women; whose secrets
906 I, 5 | trump of the angel will spring forth disencumbered--will
907 II, 1intro| order;" in that the former springs from counsel, and is proposed
908 I, 7 | servitude of matrimony, spurn the liberty which is offered
909 II, 4 | believers: so that if a station is to be kept, the husband
910 II, 8 | hair-curlers of outlandish stature? A Christian, even although
911 II, 8 | impediment: (there is) no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting,
912 I, 6 | from matrimony by a most stem oblivion: for not only do
913 I, 4 | splendour from another's store to lavish expenditure which
914 II, 4 | any, the granaries, the storehouses, are foreclosed.~
915 I, 3 | what is behind, let us both strain after what is before, and
916 II, 2 | some sense an "alien" and "stranger." Accordingly he subjoins
917 II, 8 | disciplines be held more strict than heavenly prescripts;
918 II, 8 | nations, do not all the strictest lords and most tenacious
919 I, 8concl| idleness they seduce one from strictness; through winebibbing they
920 I, 8concl| which are objects of man's striving are attained by earnest
921 I, 3 | first place is what every struggle aims at; the second has
922 II, 5 | practices); in that we are subject to the privity of the unjust;
923 II, 2 | permission, he would never have subjoined a declaration so diverse
924 II, 2 | stranger." Accordingly he subjoins withal a reason, that "we
925 I, 2 | those days, materials for subsequent emendations were furnished
926 I, 3 | of the self-same material substance. In short, there is no place
927 I, 2 | the Law presently had to succeed the Word of God introducing
928 I, 1intro| married to seven brothers successively, wound any one of her so
929 I, 5 | child, and them that give suck," except because He testifies
930 I, 7 | apostle declare, when he suffers not men twice married to
931 II, 8 | things, if need shall be, suggest to your own mind. By these
932 II, 5 | threaten them, forsooth, with a suit before some spy as arbitrator!
933 I, 4 | sufficiency," which is suitable to moderation and modesty,
934 I, 8concl| of God, there is a brief summary in one saying of His through
935 I, 8concl| early, handled throughout superfluously indeed, after the apostle,
936 II, 4 | her to attend that Lord's Supper which they defame? Who will
937 I, 2 | forerun (Him who was to supply those deficiencies). And
938 II, 6 | husband? From the tavern, I suppose, she who sups upon God will
939 II, 2 | the period confirms (the supposition) that this is thus to be
940 II, 6 | tavern, I suppose, she who sups upon God will hear somewhat!
941 II, 2 | for this reason, to be sure, in order that no one, after
942 I, 6 | and arduous thing enough, surely, is the continence for God'
943 I, 6 | seems difficult, let us survey others who cope with still
944 I, 1intro| devotion of your flesh, that I, suspicious of the pain of (anticipated)
945 I, 7 | of ours, which is to be sustained for the "garment of immortality,"
946 II, 8 | mutually exhorting, mutually sustaining. Equally (are they) both (
947 II, 5 | saith He, "your pearls to swine, lest they trample them
948 I, 2 | come in figuratively in the synagogue, yet (to interpret simply)
949 II, 3 | secrets even of matrimony tainted: not, as among the saints,
950 II, 2 | wife;" it does not say, "takes an unbelieving wife." It
951 I, 8concl| good morals do corrupt." Talkative, idle, winebibbing, curious
952 I, 8concl| purpose of widow-hood. Through talkativeness there creep in words unfriendly
953 I, 3 | and) to abolish marriage talons; as if from this period
954 I, 8concl| God, yet the widow has a task more toilsome, because it
955 I, 8concl| the widow the more hardly tasked; the former in that she
956 II, 5 | it is which you secretly taste before (taking) any food?
957 II, 6 | to her husband? From the tavern, I suppose, she who sups
958 II, 6 | club meetings, oft-times in taverns; and, wont as she was formerly
959 I, 3 | rest of their perversities, teach the disjoining of the "one
960 II, 5 | dowries, by casting in their teeth their (Christian) name,
961 II, 8 | words) enough fully to tell the happiness of that marriage
962 II, 3 | incumbent), with modesty and temperance, as beneath the eyes of
963 II, 3 | couch) less violates "the temple of God," less commingles "
964 I, 4 | concupiscence, in abolishing the temporal and fleeting desires of
965 I, 3 | of the insidiousnesses of temptations, the latter on account of
966 II, 8 | strictest lords and most tenacious of discipline interdict
967 I, 8concl| idle, winebibbing, curious tent-fellows, do the very greatest hurt
968 I, 6 | his own, as if on equal terms! Continent are even the
969 II, 7 | marked (divine) regard, a terror to her Gentile husband,
970 I, 5 | suck," except because He testifies that in that day of disencumbrance
971 II, 5 | the unjust; in that it is thanks to them that we do any (
972 I, 6 | departed from the world should thenceforward impose rest on her sex by
973 II, 5 | Scripture commands each of two things--namely, that we work for
974 I, 3 | says, "The unmarried woman thinks on the things of the Lord,
975 | thou
976 | though
977 II, 5 | wages of silence; while they threaten them, forsooth, with a suit
978 II, 2 | and exhorts; both asks and threatens. It is a concise, brief
979 | throughout
980 I, 3 | account of he straits of the times. Now, by looking into the
981 I, 4 | prohibits care to be taken about to-morrow's food and clothing, promising
982 I, 8concl| the widow has a task more toilsome, because it is easy not
983 II, 8 | is one, one is the spirit ton. Together they pray, together
984 II, 2 | Utter that word with what tone and manner you may, it is
985 II, 2 | he prohibits? sad that he took precaution, in the first
986 II, 8 | without (danger of ensuing) torment; sacrifices (attended) without
987 I, 4 | belonging to the angelic family. Training yourself to an emulation
988 I, 1intro| day of the resurrection, translated as they will be into the
989 I, 1intro| profitable, we take leave to treat of at large.~
990 I, 1intro| I. DESIGN OF THE TREATISE. DISAVOWAL OF PERSONAL MOTIVES
991 I, 7 | a leaf falls from off a tree without it. The same who
992 II, 8 | no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting, no mute benediction.
993 II, 3 | certificates before the Lord's tribunal, and allege that a marriage
994 II, 8 | shuns the other; neither is troublesome to the other. The sick is
995 II, 5 | or poison? Some, (it is true,) do endure (them); but
996 I, 5 | widows. (They) at the first trump of the angel will spring
997 I, 4 | through which causes it trumps up the "necessity" for marrying,--
998 I, 1intro| entirety this feoffment in trust of my admonition, may God
999 I, 3 | disjoining of the "one flesh in twain;" denying Him who, after
1000 I, 7 | when he suffers not men twice married to preside (over