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 1 2 |          a previous requisite for marriage;2 and furthermore, as Ambrose
 2 6 |           completely abstain from marriage and sexual pleasures, in
 3 8 |          in this matter, so exalt marriage as to rank it ahead of virginity
 4 10|        obligations and burdens of marriage, which their Master's discourse
 5 10|        for some are hindered from marriage because of some defect of
 6 11|          of bodily impediments to marriage, but of a resolution freely
 7 11|       abstain all one's life from marriage and sexual pleasure. For
 8 13|          they shun the burdens of marriage or because like Pharisees
 9 13|       lest men and women renounce marriage as though it were something
10 16|         perpetual abstinence from marriage; nor can it justly be affirmed
11 17|   chastity as a kind of spiritual marriage, in which the soul is wedded
12 17|        uses in our own day in the marriage blessing.26 ~
13 20|    generous souls to abstain from marriage, and what is the mystical
14 20|          complete renunciation of marriage frees men from its grave
15 21|        when it arises from lawful marriage, is reprehensible in itself;
16 21|       contrary, the chaste use of marriage is ennobled and sanctified
17 21|         Doctor has it, the use of marriage "keeps the soul from full
18 23|         ministers do not renounce marriage solely on account of their
19 23|           abstain from the use of marriage during the period of their
20 24|          holy virginity surpasses marriage in excellence. Our Divine
21 24|         who gives his daughter in marriage "does well," adds immediately "
22 24|         of his comparison between marriage and virginity the Apostle
23 24|        Virginity is preferable to marriage then, as We have said, above
24 26|        our own day, have given up marriage to devote themselves more
25 30|       noble souls who disdain the marriage which consists in the bodily
26 37|         of those who contend that marriage is the only means of assuring
27 37|       operato, renders the use of marriage so holy as to be a fitter
28 37|       uniting souls with God; for marriage is a sacrament, but not
29 37|         to make the employment of marriage the means, most suitable
30 38|        for a time from the use of marriage, so that they may be more
31 39|      which is sought in Christian Marriage, is a more effective aid
32 41|           of those who, united in marriage, lead a life together with
33 42|           have already contracted marriage, or desire to enter this
34 42|       that they can, if joined in marriage, as fathers and mothers
35 45|       something more perfect than marriage, it does not follow that
36 49| legitimate pleasures derived from marriage; but also a constant vigilance