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 1 Intro  |         I have espoused6 you, my children, for having granted an effectual
 2  Marc  |           as parents do to their children. For they do not at once
 3  Marc  |       one should no longer beget children with one born of the same
 4  Marc  |          Better it is to have no children, and to have virtue, for
 5 Theoph |      they should no longer beget children. For I think I have perceived
 6 Theoph |        abolish the generation of children; for although the moon may
 7 Theoph |      respecting the begetting of children1 is confessedly being fulfilled
 8 Theoph |   abstain from the generation of children. But at present man must
 9 Theoph |         love. When thirsting for children a man falls into a kind
10 Theoph |       think of the generation of children as something offensive,
11 Theoph |         For if the generation of children henceforth had seemed evil
12 Theoph |          which says, `As for the children of the adulterers, they
13 Theoph |   comparison; when thirsting for children, they bring and east in
14 Theoph |       command? ""For," He says, "children begotten of unlawful beds
15 Theoph |       despise the procreation of children, although he applauds chastity,
16  Thal  |       birth and nurture of other children, accomplishing in the receptacle
17  Thal  |          For he says, "My little children, of whom I travail in birth
18  Thal  |         the pretext of begetting children.~
19 Theop  |  inclination to the begetting of children without effect, as also
20 Thall  |           saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
21 Thall  |           saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
22 Procil |          first of the first-born children who are written in heaven,17
23 Thekla |     human desires.~For since the children of the wise have said that
24 Thekla |           instead of procreating children with modesty and temperance,
25 Thekla |        herself distinct from her children; whom the prophets, according
26 Thekla |           It is the Church whose children shall come to her with all
27 Thekla |    Church, the Bringing Forth of Children in Baptism; The Moon in
28 Thekla | travailed, she brought forth her children."21 From whom did he flee?
29 Thekla |        come near to the stars as children of light. But they are dragged
30 Thekla |         Whence they are not mere children who know Christ, like the
31 Thekla |       commanders, and women, and children, and citizens, and masters,
32 Tusiane|         may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,
33 Tusiane|     pleasant they are beyond the children of men. Good fruit came
34  Domn  |       strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in
35  Domn  |       unto righteousness for the children of the spiritual Zion, which