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1 I, Int | Jovinianus, that relating to marriage and virginity. The first
2 I, Int | introduced into the Church, and marriage brought into disesteem.~
3 I, 3 | proclaiming the excellence of marriage was only to disparage virginity.
4 I, 3 | Manichæus, and disparage marriage; nor, deceived by the error
5 I, 3 | condemns and rejects not only marriage but also food which God
6 I, 3 | ignorant of the words, 4264 “Marriage is honourable among all,
7 I, 3(4264) | Revised Ver. translates “let marriage be, etc.” There is no verb
8 I, 3 | earth”; but while we honour marriage we prefer virginity which
9 I, 3 | which is the offspring of marriage. Will silver cease to be
10 I, 3 | and ear? Virginity is to marriage what fruit is to the tree,
11 I, 3 | thirty-fold has reference to marriage. The very way the 4266 fingers
12 I, 4 | virginity in comparing it with marriage than he does to marriage,
13 I, 4 | marriage than he does to marriage, when he allows it to be
14 I, 4 | illustrations he adduces respecting marriage, and will treat them in
15 I, 5 | was he that the fruit of marriage cometh from the Lord and
16 I, 5 | his brother, marred the marriage rite. He refers to Moses
17 I, 5 | bear children.’ And 4286 ‘Marriage is honourable and the bed
18 I, 7 | experience of the bonds of marriage. See how he fashions the
19 I, 7 | hindered by the performance of marriage duty. When he says “likewise,”
20 I, 8 | still hesitate to speak of marriage as a concession to weakness,
21 I, 8 | of gifts, I acquiesce in marriage, lest I should seem to condemn
22 I, 8 | virginity is one, that of marriage, another. For were the reward
23 I, 8 | points. I grant that even marriage is a gift of God, but between
24 I, 9 | to be.” When you come to marriage, you do not say it is good
25 I, 9 | marry than to burn.” If marriage in itself be good, do not
26 I, 10 | this that they who compare marriage with virginity, may at least
27 I, 11 | unbeliever, but remain in marriage as the faith found them,
28 I, 11 | and chastity the burden of marriage. Again, if anyone was called
29 I, 11 | For neither celibacy nor marriage availeth anything without
30 I, 11 | us up to the slavery of marriage. He therefore makes a remark
31 I, 12 | 12. Having discussed marriage and continency he at length
32 I, 12 | would have seemed to condemn marriage, and to do away with the
33 I, 12 | periods of release from the marriage bond, and give themselves
34 I, 12 | which, in contempt of the marriage tie, longs for the liberty
35 I, 12 | fruit as well as the work of marriage. “For it is good for a man
36 I, 13 | force to virgins, since marriage is forbidden even to widows
37 I, 13 | to widows whose previous marriage had been lawful. For virgins
38 I, 13 | inexperience thought that marriage had at least the joys of
39 I, 13 | joy as the tribulation of marriage that is short, why do we
40 I, 13 | other works of the world, marriage too will vanish away. For
41 I, 13 | But if death be the end of marriage, why do we not voluntarily
42 I, 13 | describe the difficulties of marriage, and to revel in rhetorical
43 I, 13 | discussed virginity and marriage in some Greek verses. I
44 I, 13 | giveth his own virgin in marriage doeth well; and he that
45 I, 13 | he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.” With marked
46 I, 13 | that giveth his virgin in marriage doeth well,” it might be
47 I, 13 | he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.” If he
48 I, 13 | difference, then, between marriage and virginity is as great
49 I, 14 | and as he had subordinated marriage to virginity, so he makes
50 I, 14 | grants the indulgence of marriage, he does not mention the
51 I, 14 | What the holiness of second marriage is, appears from this—that
52 I, 15 | longer a question of single marriage. 4347 “All things are lawful,
53 I, 16 | preferred to the condition of marriage. And as regards Adam and
54 I, 16 | and in all.” The link of marriage is not found in the image
55 I, 16 | replenish the earth.” Marriage replenishes the earth, virginity
56 I, 16 | unity, and prefigures the marriage compact. Hence it was that
57 I, 16 | unclean birds is second marriage approved. For unclean animals
58 I, 19 | the wantonness of second marriage. And if Jacob had two pairs
59 I, 20 | cut off the foreskin of marriage with the knife which prefigured
60 I, 20 | putting off the bonds of marriage. And we need not be surprised
61 I, 20 | those who rose from the marriage bed. And in passing we ought
62 I, 20 | not to contract a second marriage. 4368 If the sister of a
63 I, 20(4367)| xxii. 13. But the second marriage is not there prohibited,
64 I, 21 | the Jordan, the waters of marriage, which had ever flowed in
65 I, 21 | or to sever the tie of marriage. And in the same way that
66 I, 22 | victory was unmourned. For marriage ends at death; virginity
67 I, 23 | indicate certain figures of marriage which cannot be found in
68 I, 23 | we were to maintain that marriage deserved censure, and our
69 I, 23 | if in support of second marriage, he urges the instance of
70 I, 26 | they forsook the offices of marriage. For when Peter, representing
71 I, 26 | virgin was the offspring of marriage, the Gospel of the law,
72 I, 26 | and that the defilement of marriage is not washed away by the
73 I, 27 | once tied with the bonds of marriage and was reduced to the condition
74 I, 27 | thought was on the side of marriage tells in favour of virginity.
75 I, 28 | and concubines thought of marriage. For no one can know better
76 I, 29 | with Christ. We planted in marriage, let us by chastity pluck
77 I, 29 | be placed on a level with marriage: 4445 “Better,” he says, “
78 I, 29 | Or if Paradise admits of marriage, and there is no difference
79 I, 29 | is no difference between marriage and virginity, what prevented
80 I, 29 | consecrated by Paradise, and marriage by earth. 4448 “Let thy
81 I, 29 | cease. Let us who served marriage under the law, serve virginity
82 I, 30 | it makes altogether for marriage, I shall show that it contains
83 I, 30 | professes to have at the marriage, she not only had silver
84 I, 30 | shall understand that second marriage is repudiated even by dumb
85 I, 30 | like this—I do not reject marriage: you have a second eye,
86 I, 30 | view carnal love and bodily marriage, he at once excludes this
87 I, 32 | virginity be not preferred to marriage, why did not the Holy Spirit
88 I, 33 | is a difference between marriage and virginity, what have
89 I, 33 | to virgins. If previous marriage is no prejudice to a baptized
90 I, 33 | married women who pay the marriage due, let widows themselves
91 I, 34 | virginity the preference over marriage, and advises what he does
92 I, 34 | priests to perform the work of marriage with the result that virginity
93 I, 34 | result that virginity and marriage are on a par: or if it is
94 I, 34 | released from the duties of marriage. For even under the old
95 I, 34 | Apostle’s meaning be that marriage is necessary in a bishop,
96 I, 36 | a widow, or continent in marriage, how will mortal men be
97 I, 36 | neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be like the angels.”
98 I, 37 | suppose too that the end of marriage is death. But the compensating
99 I, 37 | perform the functions of marriage love the wisdom of the flesh,
100 I, 37 | this—God indeed permits marriage, He permits second marriages,
101 I, 37 | with the coarse milk of marriage. As through man came death,
102 I, 37 | chastity cannot belong to marriage. 4530 “For we know that
103 I, 37 | the works of the law is marriage, and accordingly under it
104 I, 39 | cometh down from above, where marriage is unknown; and it cometh
105 I, 39 | neither marry, nor be given in marriage, there, in other words,
106 I, 40 | show that virginity and marriage are equal: or if he does
107 I, 40 | widows and the continent in marriage, come after the first-fruits,
108 I, 40 | Galilee, and joined in the marriage festivities when He turned
109 I, 40 | For by going once to a marriage, He taught that men should
110 I, 40 | possible to injure virginity if marriage were not placed next to
111 I, 40 | may say in praise of marriage. For the Church does not
112 I, 40 | Church does not condemn marriage, but makes it subordinate;
113 I, 41 | did not set her heart on marriage with its troubles of pregnancy
114 I, 41 | esteem in which they held marriage that they did not even among
115 I, 43 | be forced into a second marriage, and who entertained a marvellous
116 I, 43 | may teach us that second marriage was repudiated among the
117 I, 43 | when her hand was sought in marriage by Iarbas, king of Libya,
118 I, 43 | Libya, she deferred the marriage for a while until her country
119 I, 44 | dies thus, wants no second marriage. The famous Alcibiades,
120 I, 47 | precepts which allow a second marriage? Seeing they despise the
121 I, 47 | from the heathen. A book On Marriage, worth its weight in gold,
122 I, 47 | are seldom satisfied in marriage. A wise man therefore must
123 I, 47 | all this we learn after marriage. Horses, asses, cattle,
124 I, 48(4630)| day,” that is, than the marriage day implied in the context.~
125 I, 48 | can seldom marry, because marriage has many drawbacks. And
126 I, 48 | Jupiter who presides over marriage. But if, as he thinks, the
127 I, 49 | say they have contracted marriage and are bringing up children,
128 I, 49 | husbands. In some cases marriage has grown out of adultery:
129 I, 49 | Apostle conceding second marriage to depraved women, they
130 II, 4 | the fertilisation of the marriage bed. 4715 “For who can strip
131 II, 15 | himself with the tie of marriage. And yet though cast out
132 II, 15 | difference between virginity and marriage, but to assert his sympathy
133 II, 15 | declared not by virginity or marriage, but by the Law and the
134 II, 15 | that by Moses is signified marriage, by Elias virginity, let
135 II, 16 | blame those who forbade marriage, and commanded to abstain
136 II, 16 | marrying, and giving in marriage. For both the flood and
137 II, 16 | found fulness as well as marriage ready for destruction. Nor
138 II, 17 | the fact of His going to marriage feasts and from His not
139 II, 17 | as we prefer virginity to marriage, so do we esteem fasting
140 II, 18 | good works went into the marriage with the bridegroom. He
141 II, 24 | prostitution, in another of pure marriage. Certainly our Lord and
142 II, 35 | widowhood, widowhood to marriage. The passage of the apostle,
143 II, 37 | You cannot do the work of marriage unless you take mead, and
144 II, 37 | he has the consolation of marriage to slake his lust. And if
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