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1 6 | eye-witness of God; you have Aaron the chief priest. The second
2 12| with reference to bishops, abandon withal your remaining disciplinary
3 14| substance to the needy, and was abandoned by the Lord to his own opinion.
4 15| away with marriage if we abjure its repetition, than we
5 14| divorce--it had (somewhat) to abrogate; the New Prophecy (abrogates)
6 14| abrogate; the New Prophecy (abrogates) second marriage, (which
7 3 | himself too for this reason abstinent--gives the preference to
8 4 | might have taken from the abundance of his own daughters--having
9 16| paints. For in him matter is abundant: whence he presumes that
10 1 | contempt of strangers. They who abuse thee, do thee equal hurt
11 1 | law of marriage reaps an accession of honour where it is associated
12 3 | even good. What, now, if he accommodatingly grants all indulgence to
13 8 | stone way (as they did) when accompanying the Lord. But further, if
14 15| in another case neither accord it support nor foster it
15 15| think it must have support accorded to it in frequency of marriage;
16 7 | should be judged equally accursed (with the other class);
17 17| virgins of Vesta, and of the Achaian Juno, and of the Scythian
18 10| cogitation without carnal contact achieves beforehand both adultery
19 14| just as (he did) the other (actions) which he did adversely
20 5 | flesh, the more perfect Adam--that is, Christ, more perfect
21 16| A third saying let them add, "Let us eat, and drink,
22 4 | more wives (than one). He added, too, a law concerning the
23 10| sex, even if our discourse address itself but to the one; inasmuch
24 11| case, that he therefore adds, "only in the Lord;" because
25 8 | persons ought to be the adherents to the spiritual temple,--
26 9 | marriage or promiscuously, the admission of a second man (to intercourse)
27 8 | different ones had He in adult age. Peter alone do I find--
28 9 | they indulge in promiscuous adulteries, even without divorcing (
29 16| infirmity of the flesh" is advanced in opposition (to us: infirmity)
30 14| other (actions) which he did adversely to the (strict) letter of
31 11| primarily with the individual advice and practice of the apostle
32 16| Iteration of marriage is an affair of strength: to rise again
33 10| adultery, the conscious affection of one woman for two men.
34 13| have had Christ in their affections, "wish to marry, having
35 11| beginning," how does he affirm that all things are being
36 9 | concerning which it cannot be affirmed, "This is flesh out of my
37 16| is not derived from God's afflatus! What if a man allege "indigence,"
38 16| his home? as if one woman afforded company to a man ever on
39 | afterwards
40 7 | if she have she may marry again--for how much more will she
41 8 | preached by a woman, an aged widow, and "the wife of
42 11| because the question in agitation was about her who had had
43 11| since these (other passages) agree to the sense (given above): "
44 11| should have some explanation agreeable with the others, than that
45 11| question is, it will be agreed (as we have said) that he
46 15| marriage, as being unlawful, akin to adultery? For what is
47 9 | disjoined, other--nay, rather alien--flesh is mingled (with either):
48 11| And yet it is "by way of allowance" that he makes the concession, "
49 4 | IV. WAIVING ALLUSION TO THE PARACLETE, TERTULLIAN
50 3 | whom looking, the apostle also--himself too for this reason
51 11| either crafty or simple alteration of two syllables) has gone
52 17| husbands, are widowed by amicable separation. There are, too,
53 11| even of (marriages) to any amount, if of second (marriage):
54 7 | remain reserved, but even amplified; in order, to be sure, that
55 5 | through the spiritual, it was analogous to the carnal monogamy.
56 10| marriage, but will be equal to angels,' is not the fact that there
57 10| as body, through discord, anger, hatred, and the causes
58 10| offers (her sacrifice) on the anniversaries of his falling asleep. For,
59 3 | the married I officially announce--not I, but the Lord"--he
60 3 | withal have preached its annulling; and that it is more credible
61 10| in peace?" What will she answer? (Will she say), "In discord?"
62 13| OBJECTIONS FROM ST. PAUL ANSWERED.~"But again, writing to
63 11| Order, if this rule does not antecedently hold good in the case of
64 16| whimpering. Let them prepare for Antichrist (children) upon whom he
65 4 | As for what pertains to antiquity, what more ancient formal
66 17| Diana, and of the Pythian Apollo. On the ground of continence
67 11| accordance with the law and the apostle--if, notwithstanding, you
68 7 | according to the sentence of the apostles--which not even the fathers
69 17| monogamy and widowhood serve as apparitors. On Fortuna Muliebris, as
70 8 | particular example, it would appear right for him to say, "For
71 8 | John the forerunner: one appeasing God; one preaching Christ:
72 2 | those "many things" which appertain to disciplines; while the
73 15| which (has yielded) to appetite; that which has been overcome
74 9 | beginning, so now too, cannot apply to "other" flesh. Accordingly,
75 8 | upon him, was destined to appoint every grade of her Order
76 3 | He is (now) definitively appointing; what He deferred, He is (
77 10| apostle; for the more easy apprehension of whose meaning we must
78 11| state of) marriage, were apprehensive that it might not be lawful
79 11| will have it the apostle approved, or else totally failed
80 12| withal, to the very subtle argumentation on the contrary side. "So
81 9 | TEACHING.~But grant that these argumentations may be thought to be forced
82 17| destined our judges. There will arise a queen of Carthage, and
83 4 | shall thou lead into the ark, that they may live with
84 4 | race. Second Lamech there arose none, in the way of being
85 17| whereto by "the end" thou art being recalled! Return at
86 10| he has not. In short, I ask the woman herself, "Tell
87 11| rendering of "To every one who asketh thee thou shalt give!" And
88 3 | permitted, but needs no asking to make it lawful. Permission
89 17| burn" than to "marry." Her assessor will be the Roman matron
90 1 | accession of honour where it is associated with shamefastness. But
91 8 | is "children's;" while He associates with these (children) others
92 5 | first and the last, the Lord assumes to Himself, as figures of
93 8 | around Him); for He willed to attend (marriages) only so often
94 12| universally and carefully attended to, that the laity might
95 11| once married Isaac as its author? How does he make monogamy
96 4 | very end in the case of the authors of our race; not because
97 17| her flesh, that she might avenge upon her own person (the
98 4 | iniquities) once for all avenged, whatever was their nature;
99 5 | beginning on to the end, and the backward course of the end up to
100 3 | compared to a thing very bad? "Good" is that which keeps
101 6 | justified in uncircumcision. You bare the apostle: learn (of him),
102 7 | thirdly, because eunuchs and barren persons used to be regarded
103 11| does he make monogamy the base of his disposition of the
104 15| excuse which has fallen in battle, than (that) which (has
105 2 | even now are they found bearable: (revelations), however,
106 | becomes
107 | becoming
108 15| succumbed) on the bridal bed; (that) which has yielded
109 15| which (has fallen) in the bed-chamber; (that) which has succumbed
110 | begin
111 6 | Gospel," says he, "I have begotten you." Show yourself a son
112 11| any wisdom, be silent on behalf of the dead one. Let your
113 | behind
114 11| inasmuch as it is easier (of belief) that that one passage should
115 6 | of the free woman," and belong to Isaac, he, at all events,
116 7 | first, because that ancient benediction, "Grow and multiply," had
117 | Besides
118 11| a virgin church, the one betrothed of the one Christ! And you
119 | beyond
120 14| thing to indulge, another to bid--permitting a temporary licence
121 6 | in other riches--you are bidden to "follow the better things;"
122 8 | simplicity of the dove, a bird not merely innocuous, but
123 4 | shall I say? Even unclean birds were not allowed to enter
124 16| fall far more heavily and bitterly in the "universal shaking"
125 1 | psychical. The former is blasphemous, the latter wanton; the
126 6 | you will not be able to blend. His digamy began with circumcision,
127 15| modesty. And yet not even a bloodwrung--not to say an immodest--
128 17| his shame; once for all blushed in the presence of God;
129 12| course: at all events, not blushing when these passages are
130 12| if you please) evaded the bonds of discipline in its entirety!
131 9 | out of my flesh, and this bone out of my bones." For this,
132 4 | that even beasts should be born of adultery. "Out of all
133 2 | then "not yet able to be borne."~
134 15| marriage? The apostle sets a brand upon those who were wont
135 16| seasonable for the last times--breasts heaving, and wombs qualmish,
136 15| which (has succumbed) on the bridal bed; (that) which has yielded
137 3 | impose by this time a final bridle upon the flesh, no longer
138 3 | be "novel." This (even) broader assertion we make: that
139 9 | binding medium has been broken off." To whom, then, will
140 4 | ancient formal type can be brought forward, than the very original
141 9 | hundredth year from the building of the city that this kind
142 8 | consideration of the Church, which, built upon him, was destined to
143 17| likewise of the famous Egyptian bull will judge the "infirmity"
144 2 | opposition to the "light burden" of the Lord. Now concerning
145 7 | in this sense, that its burdens--according to the sentence
146 2 | catholic tradition, or with burdensomeness, in opposition to the "light
147 7 | wife of a brother being buried, its contrary has obtained--
148 7 | who live to God, nor do we bury our dead, inasmuch as they
149 9 | sins against his own body." But--as we have previously laid
150 10| separated from, but left behind by--her consort, be his, even
151 11| Order proceeds? How does he call away from the enjoyment
152 7 | treat in order of all our canon. And since there are some
153 17| Adam, if to the last thou canst not! Once for all did he
154 15| that (infirmity) is more capable of excuse which has fallen
155 2 | Comforter), on the ground of the cardinal rule, He will reveal those "
156 16| forgetting that there is to be no careful thought about food and clothing?
157 12| certain sense universally and carefully attended to, that the laity
158 8 | in accordance with the carelessness of custom, women and wives
159 12| not ruling your house, nor caring for your children's discipline,"--
160 7 | order that the son, too, may carry out the precept of God, "
161 17| There will arise a queen of Carthage, and give sentence upon
162 7 | marriage is permitted in other cases as well: it will be their
163 7 | but fulfilled), sometimes catch at such parts of the law
164 14| him in its support when it catches: at his indulgence, (but)
165 9 | does it not fall under the category of adultery, in that adultery
166 2 | novelty, in opposition to catholic tradition, or with burdensomeness,
167 7 | in Leviticus there is a caution, "Whoever shall have taken (
168 7 | know that that reason, now ceasing, is among those parts of
169 5 | beginning." In both, the censorial power of monogamy claims
170 9 | divorce, which (harshness) He censures and restrains, but through
171 8 | like the other apostles and Cephas?" But when he subjoins those (
172 17| marry. The priestesses of Ceres, even during the lifetime
173 7 | ceased to be valid, on the cessation of its reason, cannot furnish
174 9 | which precaution is taken chance to have occurred beforehand.
175 6 | circumcision. But if afterwards. he changed to either (opposite)--to
176 3 | recognise the Paraclete in His character of Comforter, in that He
177 6 | refuse his digamy too. Two characters of his mutually diverse
178 2 | such thing as can either be charged with novelty, in opposition
179 15| XV. UNFAIRNESS OF CHARGING THE DISCIPLES OF THE NEW
180 14| watchfulness of the Jews--he who chastises the Galatians when they
181 7 | righteousness" must, of course chastity must too. If, then, forasmuch
182 14| of God and of Christ to check "hard-heartedness" when
183 14| be formed in them;" and "cherishing, as it were a nurse," the
184 7 | compressed; and "the sour grape" chewed by "the fathers" has ceased "
185 11| thinking over that also, chiefly because withal they did
186 16| denounced) "on such as are with child, and are giving suck," will
187 1 | recognises the power of free choice, the latter recognises a
188 17| privilege to plead before Christ--the everlasting "infirmity
189 12| digamists, too, preside in your churches; insulting the apostle,
190 14| circumstances. of the times: circumcising Timotheus on account of "
191 8 | spirit? A man "just and circumspect," and of course no digamist, (
192 11| on the subject of those (circumstantial conditions) in which they
193 9 | from the building of the city that this kind of "hard-heartedness"
194 14| Moses; if, indeed, it is claiming him in its support when
195 7 | accursed (with the other class); for this reason a vicarious
196 8 | custom, women and wives are classed under a common name--however,
197 10| in that place where even cogitation without carnal contact achieves
198 6 | opposite)--to digamy through cohabitation with his handmaid, and to
199 12| with the hand to strike, combative, money-loving, not ruling
200 14| His operations, to whose coming were deferred by the Lord (
201 2 | integrity of His preaching commands credit for these (revelations),
202 10| withdrawn from viler carnal commerce. A more honourable husband
203 15| our part, if we renounce (communion with) such as do not the
204 3 | this name per se; without comparison--I say not with an evil,
205 2 | whence they find themselves compelled to deny the Paraclete more
206 1 | and thine own grooms, thou complainest as much of the over-obedience
207 10| or whatsoever cause of complaint--is bound to a personal enemy,
208 7 | not," because "the time is compressed; and "the sour grape" chewed
209 17| presence of God; once for all concealed his guilty hue; once for
210 8 | similar in kind to that which conceived and gave birth to that (
211 11| allowance" that he makes the concession, "not by way of command;"
212 12| which will be the fitting concomitants of monogamy, will have been
213 5 | beginning and end! which concur in Himself: so that, just
214 11| uncircumcised:" with which concurs, "Thou hast been bound to
215 14| PERMISSION OF DIVORCE A CONDESCENSION TO HUMAN HARD-HEARTEDNESS.~
216 11| of those (circumstantial conditions) in which they had been "
217 11| preferred to please God! Such (conduct) the Psychics will have
218 3 | supervening for the purpose of conducting disciplehood into "all truth"
219 12| Christians upon whom is conferred the entirety of discipline? ~
220 16| the very end; that in this confusion of flesh they, like Sodom
221 9 | be forced and founded on conjectures, if no dogmatic teachings
222 9 | separated by death man is not to conjoin by marriage; the joining
223 11| wills us to iterate conjugal connections, how does he maintain that "
224 10| This will be adultery, the conscious affection of one woman for
225 10| reformed in substance, not in consciousness? Consequently, we who shall
226 17| the lifetime and with the consent of their husbands, are widowed
227 11| would shortly follow, in consequence of the straits of the times,
228 3 | Therefore, if all these (considerations) obliterate the licence
229 12| discipline in its entirety! Be consistent in prescribing, that "what
230 4 | to be gathered to him, consisting of male and female--one
231 13| which is the Church, which consists in the spirit of newness,)
232 10| but left behind by--her consort, be his, even when dead,
233 10| be bound to our departed consorts?" Nay, but the more shall
234 10| to rise to a spiritual consortship, to recognise as well our
235 9 | But another reason, too, conspires; nay, not another, but (
236 14| deliberate opinions and his constant "wills," not suffering us
237 11| and recent "calling," were consulting (the apostle) on the subject
238 1 | own household as of the contempt of strangers. They who abuse
239 3 | his (partner). And I may contend, that what is permitted
240 14| infirmity of the flesh" (be content to) have reigned till the
241 8 | have been either eunuchs or continent. Nor indeed, if, among the
242 1 | will please, as being the contraries of the Spirit. "The flesh,"
243 9 | for fear, namely, that he contravene the Lord: for He alone shall "
244 10| causes of these--injury, or contumely, or whatsoever cause of
245 14| been lost subsequently to (conversion to) the faith, he would
246 5 | flesh,--may have an end correspondent to its beginning. And so
247 2 | discipline; because the corruption of that which holds the
248 11| heathen marriages. They sought counsel, further, "concerning virgins"--
249 3 | successively thereafter in both the counsels and the examples of His
250 12| s discipline,"--no, nor "courting good renown even from strangers."
251 17| she ought unasked to have craved royal nuptials, yet, for
252 3 | annulling; and that it is more credible that He should have tempered
253 2 | of His preaching commands credit for these (revelations),
254 4 | their) kind, and from all creepers of the earth according to
255 15| that) which has yielded to cruelty, than (that) which (has
256 17| XVII. HEATHEN EXAMPLES CRY SHAME UPON THIS "INFIRMITY
257 4 | God fashion for the male, culling one rib of his, and (of
258 8 | with the carelessness of custom, women and wives are classed
259 3 | beforehand, even at that early date, in the Lord's flesh and
260 11| believing that our life itself dates its origin. But here he
261 4 | the abundance of his own daughters--having no less an Eve (taken)
262 6 | examples--(examples) of some David heaping up marriages for
263 11| bishop, of presbyters and deacons bound by the same solemn
264 7 | we are called by Christ; debtors to monogamy, in accordance
265 7 | assert that the law has deceased in this sense, that its
266 10| For, unless she does these deeds, she has in the true sense
267 15| not to say an immodest--defection does the "infirmity of the
268 1 | heretical, nor such licence defensible because it is psychical.
269 3 | premonished, He is (now) definitively appointing; what He deferred,
270 15| of the flesh" to such a degree as to think it must have
271 14| prescript--eluding his more deliberate opinions and his constant "
272 8 | marry once for all after her delivery, who gave birth to Christ,
273 4 | Scriptures. This very thing is demonstrable by us: that the rule of
274 15| torments have reduced it to a denial (of the faith)? For, of
275 13| his speech) to such as he denotes above--"very young widows,"
276 16| reflecting that the "woe" (denounced) "on such as are with child,
277 2 | themselves compelled to deny the Paraclete more than
278 14| free-will--you ought to depart from Him whose will you
279 16| his psychic element is not derived from God's afflatus! What
280 10| it is) because he did not deserve it. Or else shall we, pray,
281 1 | spiritual gifts entitles to be deservedly called Spiritual, continence
282 14| the beginning"--without deserving on this account to be regarded
283 14| the Galatians when they desire to live in (observance of)
284 3 | limitations; nevertheless already destroying it, in so far as he gives
285 1 | latter wanton; the former destroys the God of marriages, the
286 16| world than it did in the devastation of one fraction of Judaea.
287 8 | of one man;" who, living devoted to the temple, was (already)
288 17| Juno, and of the Scythian Diana, and of the Pythian Apollo.
289 3 | above had not been (the dictates) of the Lord's authority,
290 4 | marriage. For it makes no difference whether a man have had two
291 12| Scantinian law. Why, how many digamists, too, preside in your churches;
292 9 | EXAMPLES TERTULLIAN PASSES TO DIRECT DOGMATIC TEACHINGS. HE BEGINS
293 5 | beginning," we find ourselves directed to the beginning by Christ:
294 13| housewife.'" He is (here) directing (his speech) to such as
295 3 | the purpose of conducting disciplehood into "all truth" through
296 15| UNFAIRNESS OF CHARGING THE DISCIPLES OF THE NEW PROPHECY WITH
297 12| abandon withal your remaining disciplinary titles, which, together
298 2 | things" which appertain to disciplines; while the integrity of
299 10| to each sex, even if our discourse address itself but to the
300 11| explanation we shall be able to discover in the subject-matter itself.
301 16| forsooth, will seek heirs, disinherited as he is from the entire
302 11| monogamy the base of his disposition of the whole Ecclesiastical
303 8 | had wives? For if he were disputing about marriages, as he does
304 9 | living. "Alike when divorce dissevers marriage as when death does,
305 7 | law (which Christ has not dissolved, but fulfilled), sometimes
306 14| received" the precept of dividing his substance to the needy,
307 5 | and the prejudgment of the divine institution, which of course
308 14| Paraclete. The New Law abrogated divorce--it had (somewhat) to abrogate;
309 10| whom she has written no (document of) divorce; him whom she
310 7 | equally pass on to the ancient documents of the legal Scriptures,
311 9 | make an irruption (into His dominion); permitting divorce to
312 1 | latter not only once. What dost thou, Law of the Creator?
313 11| already endorsed in the dotal gifts of another. In this
314 7 | shall (he) die;" beyond doubt, while the man is prohibited
315 8 | copy) the simplicity of the dove, a bird not merely innocuous,
316 5 | that in Himself is both the downward course of the beginning
317 11| of this passage that they draw their defence of the licence
318 7 | law, the lines of argument drawn from it are more suitable
319 16| them add, "Let us eat, and drink, and really, for to-morrow
320 3 | obscured by a higher evil, is driven to the name of good. Take
321 11| referring to future tim,e, "If any (woman's). husband
322 3 | beforehand, even at that early date, in the Lord's flesh
323 11| another. In this way you will earn the new husband's favour,
324 10| meaning we must all the more earnestly inculcate (the assertion),
325 11| solicitude must be felt about earning the Lord's favour than a
326 16| to rise again from the ease of continence to the works
327 11| themselves; inasmuch as it is easier (of belief) that that one
328 3 | these thoughts, you will easily persuade yourself that it
329 16| saying let them add, "Let us eat, and drink, and really,
330 5 | beginning; so that every economy, ending in Him through whom
331 7 | to set the sons' teeth on edge," for, "each one shall die
332 12| on its fore-front, as an edict to be in a certain sense
333 13| which (passions) used to be efficiently caused through the law, (
334 17| priests likewise of the famous Egyptian bull will judge the "infirmity"
335 3 | up,"--about years having elapsed since then? Would you not
336 16| because even his psychic element is not derived from God'
337 | elsewhere
338 14| refuses his prescript--eluding his more deliberate opinions
339 6 | with our inquiry into some eminent chief fathers of our origin:
340 2 | will begin by bearing emphatic witness to Christ, (as being)
341 11| times, which shunned the encumbrances of marriage: yea, rather
342 | ending
343 11| to him a divorce, already endorsed in the dotal gifts of another.
344 14| any one to be unable to endure, seeing that He through
345 14| through whom the power of enduring is granted is not wanting.
346 10| complaint--is bound to a personal enemy, not to say a husband, how
347 11| bound by the same solemn engagement, of widows whose Order you
348 8 | who were mindful rather to enjoin--(but) not likewise to practise--
349 11| that is, indulging, not enjoining, the practice. On the other
350 11| for them thenceforward to enjoy their marriage, because
351 | enough
352 1 | recognition of spiritual gifts entitles to be deservedly called
353 5 | apostle, too, writing to the Ephesians, says that God "had proposed
354 10| to (the teaching of) some Epicurus, and not according to (that
355 7 | shall have come to his own epistle. Meantime, so far as pertains
356 12| challenged to a thorough equalization with the sacerdotal discipline,
357 11| such as through death had escaped from marriage? If these (
358 7 | then, an agreement shall be established between the apostle and
359 10| are destined to a better estate--destined (as we are) to
360 2 | such (teachings) as may be esteemed alike novel, as having never
361 14| iterated. In short, in the estimation of the world, each is accounted
362 1 | the beginning, it became estranged from the Spirit. "My Spirit,"
363 1 | permanently abide in these men eternally, for that they are flesh."~
364 10| we sing thanks to God to eternity, if there shall remain in
365 13| which flatters you, may evade (your grasp). "And so,"
366 12| you have (if you please) evaded the bonds of discipline
367 3 | say not with an evil, but even--with some other good: so
368 17| plead before Christ--the everlasting "infirmity of the flesh!"
369 | everything
370 4 | some authority of our own, evolve we the common instruments
371 5 | under, and of your hope, exact this from you, that what
372 7 | of the fathers used to be exacted even from the sons; thirdly,
373 3 | He deferred, He is (now) exacting." And presently, by revolving
374 11| interpretation of that passage, to be examined as to whether it be congruous
375 6 | I glance around at their examples--(examples) of some David
376 12| now, you who think that an exceptional law of monogamy is made
377 10| will be a crime. Besides, excluded he Is not, if he has withdrawn
378 12| will have been written (exclusively) for bishops. With laics,
379 15| heat. But the former they excommunicate, because it has not "endured
380 3 | of Comforter, in that He excuses your infirmity from (the
381 17| bound to be (yet) better. Exhibit (to us) a third Adam, and
382 8 | proclaiming a perfect priest; one exhibiting "more than a prophet,"--
383 5 | the first Adam before his exile. But, presenting to your
384 17| guilty hue; once for all was exiled from the paradise of holiness;
385 15| harshness, or esteem heresy (to exist) in this (our) cause, foster
386 17| yet, for fear she should experience a second marriage, preferred
387 14| its indulgence) was fully expired, why should it not be more
388 8 | when he subjoins those (expressions)which show his abstinence
389 14| persevere in waging a war of extermination against the "better things?"
390 12| body? (No); but when we are extolling and inflating ourselves
391 7 | them. But (now), when the "extremity of the times" has cancelled (
392 6 | have Moses, the intimate eye-witness of God; you have Aaron the
393 8 | that is, the Church. Such eye-witnesses the Lord in infancy found;
394 16| with thoughts like the eyes of Lot's wife; so that a
395 11| even about this--with what face do you request (the solemnizing
396 11| approved, or else totally failed to think about, when he
397 9 | indeed, "one of two sparrows falleth not on the ground without
398 10| the anniversaries of his falling asleep. For, unless she
399 14| account of "supposititious false brethren;" and leading certain "
400 17| priests likewise of the famous Egyptian bull will judge
401 4 | race? One female did God fashion for the male, culling one
402 15| we reprobate meats if we fast oftener (than others). It
403 16| may be overtaken by the fated final end of the world.
404 6 | whom you follow as your father--that is, the digamist (Abraham)--
405 10| her own nor her husband's fault, but by an event resulting
406 12| bishop of Utina of yours feared not even the Scantinian
407 10| refreshment for him meanwhile, and fellowship (with him) in the first
408 4 | consisting of male and female--one male and one female
409 4 | allowed to enter with two females each.~
410 12| lay down the (priestly) fillets, and (still) are on a par!
411 8 | adult age. Peter alone do I find--through (the mention of)
412 6 | Christ either. To Abraham, in fine, they appeal; prohibited
413 4 | there were none was that the first-fruits of the race might not be
414 15| marrying, it is another to fix a limit to marrying. To
415 17| Maximus and the wife of a Flamen marry. The priestesses of
416 12| honour itself might not flatter itself in anything tending
417 13| order that this sense, which flatters you, may evade (your grasp). "
418 16| a man ever on the eve of flight! He has, of course, a widow (
419 16| ravens, the Rearer even of flowers. What if he plead the loneliness
420 4 | shall be (taken) from all flying animals according to (their)
421 3 | the heat of the flesh to foam itself down even in single
422 7 | chastity must too. If, then, forasmuch as there is in the law a
423 12| should be set forth on its fore-front, as an edict to be in a
424 8 | one absolute, in John the forerunner: one appeasing God; one
425 12| position. The Holy Spirit foresaw that some would say, "All
426 11| husband's favour, if you forget the old. You ought to take
427 16| the sake of maintenance; forgetting that there is to be no careful
428 4 | antiquity, what more ancient formal type can be brought forward,
429 14| them until Christ should be formed in them;" and "cherishing,
430 | formerly
431 4 | and female." In the same formula, too, He .orders sets of
432 11| woman; but, on account of fornications, let each one have his own
433 16| repeating marriage? A Christian, forsooth, will seek heirs, disinherited
434 12| discipline should be set forth on its fore-front, as an
435 17| serve as apparitors. On Fortuna Muliebris, as on Mother
436 4 | formal type can be brought forward, than the very original
437 16| has God (to look to), the Foster-father even of ravens, the Rearer
438 9 | thought to be forced and founded on conjectures, if no dogmatic
439 4 | than the very original fount of the human race? One female
440 16| equal, to a third, and a fourth, and even (perhaps) a seventh
441 16| in the devastation of one fraction of Judaea. Let them accumulate
442 4 | homicide, inaugurated in fratricide--no crime was so worthy of
443 14| action of each individual free-will. "Behold," saith He, "I
444 14| has proposed each to your free-will--you ought to depart from
445 13| have died, she has been freed from (his) law, (so) that
446 5 | from the beginning; and freedom of meats and abstinence
447 8 | gluttonous and toping," the "frequenter of luncheons and suppers,
448 11| limit would have granted a (fresh) husband as often as one
449 16| their iterated marriages fruits right seasonable for the
450 5 | the dispensation of the fulfilment of the times, to recall
451 16| receive their portion in full, in accordance with the
452 7 | cessation of its reason, cannot furnish a ground of argument to
453 10| husband, who is, even to futurity, in the possession of her
454 14| things to all, in order to gain all;" "travailing m birth
455 4 | made up of pairs, to be gathered to him, consisting of male
456 2 | we must join issue in a general handling (of the subject),
457 5 | presenting to your weakness the gift of the example of His own
458 6 | others I ignore. And if I glance around at their examples--(
459 2 | God the Creator, and will glorify Him, and will "bring to
460 8 | the revelation of His own glory, He prefers, from among
461 8 | Elias"); while that "man gluttonous and toping," the "frequenter
462 10| shall all be with the one God--albeit the wages be various,
463 2 | the rule of faith, and so (going on to) adulterating the
464 16| flesh they, like Sodom and Gomorrah, and the day of the deluge,
465 11| alteration of two syllables) has gone out into common use, "But
466 8 | properly ours--that is, to the Gospel--by what kind of examples
467 6 | Images prophesy: statutes govern. What that digamy of Abraham
468 7 | but have even deserved grace, being invited into "the
469 3 | all truth" through the gradations of the times (according
470 14| an indulgence which Paul granted--because second marriage
471 3 | now, if he accommodatingly grants all indulgence to marry
472 7 | compressed; and "the sour grape" chewed by "the fathers"
473 13| flatters you, may evade (your grasp). "And so," he says, "my
474 5 | too, the two letters of Greece, the first and the last,
475 11| plainly know that, in the Greek original, it does not stand
476 8 | Nor indeed, if, among the Greeks, in accordance with the
477 15| which has been overcome groaning, than (that) which (has
478 1 | alien eunuchs and thine own grooms, thou complainest as much
479 4 | undertake (the duty of) "growing and multiplying,"--Noah, (
480 11| nothing is so much to be guarded as (the care) that no one
481 14| Lord (the things) which in H's day "could not be endured;"
482 10| if another shall find a habitation, this will be a crime. Besides,
483 2 | join issue in a general handling (of the subject), whether
484 6 | through cohabitation with his handmaid, and to circumcision through
485 8 | who receives Him into his hands? who is the first to recognise
486 17| but a once wedded woman hangs the wreath. Once for all
487 7 | his brother; and this may happen repeatedly to the same person,
488 3 | whether you will have the hardihood to say, "Better (it is)
489 1 | one and the other are in harmony with the Creator. Continence
490 2 | discipline which they find most harsh: so that this is already
491 7 | recalls that young man who was hastening to his father's obsequies,
492 10| through discord, anger, hatred, and the causes of these--
493 17| be the Roman matron who, having--albeit it was through noctural
494 11| But if her husband shall haze fallen asleep," as if it
495 5 | times, to recall to the head" (that is, to the beginning) "
496 6 | examples) of some David heaping up marriages for himself
497 10| From him from whom she has heard no (word of) divorce she
498 10| flesh, but remains in her heart--in that place where even
499 16| suck," will fall far more heavily and bitterly in the "universal
500 16| the last times--breasts heaving, and wombs qualmish, and
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