Chapter

 1 Int|   children of Joseph by a former marriage, or first cousins, children
 2 Int|       preference of virginity to marriage, Jerome argues that not
 3 Int|         state (19); that, though marriage may sometimes be a holy
 4 Int|          God’s will than that of marriage (21, 22).~
 5 4  |       time immediately preceding marriage, and shows that matters
 6 4  |       before the consummation of marriage, she was found to be with
 7 20 | comparison between virginity and marriage. I could not forbear smiling,
 8 21 |        do we say this to condemn marriage, for virginity itself is
 9 21 | virginity itself is the fruit of marriage; but because when we are
10 22 | comparison between virginity and marriage, I beseech my readers not
11 22 |          in the least disparaged marriage, and separated the saints
12 22 |        married and were given in marriage, left father and mother,
13 22 |       For so long as the debt of marriage is paid, earnest prayer
14 23 |        even in the close bond of marriage, imitate virgin chastity.
15 24 |          to virginity and to the marriage state. And because I think