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1 I, Int | relating to marriage and virginity. The first three chapters
2 I, Int | 40), and the praises of virginity and of single marriages
3 I, 3 | marriage was only to disparage virginity. For when the less is put
4 I, 3 | honour marriage we prefer virginity which is the offspring of
5 I, 3 | grain to stalk and ear? Virginity is to marriage what fruit
6 I, 3 | widowhood, and thus the crown of virginity is expressed. In saying
7 I, 3 | is to strike a blow for virginity. The farther back the catapult
8 I, 4 | does no less injury to virginity in comparing it with marriage
9 I, 5 | they had not the benefit of virginity, they were victorious over
10 I, 5 | rhetoric and apostrophizes virginity thus: “I do you no wrong,
11 I, 8 | consider, that the gift of virginity is one, that of marriage,
12 I, 9 | discussing continence and virginity you say, “It is good for
13 I, 10 | who compare marriage with virginity, may at least know that
14 I, 11 | to do with wedlock and virginity? In the next p. 354 place,
15 I, 11 | sigh for the loss of your virginity. But even if you can find
16 I, 12 | continency he at length comes to virginity and says 4316 “Now concerning
17 I, 12 | which he shakes the wall of virginity. “See,” says he, “the Apostle
18 I, 12 | If the Lord had commanded virginity He would have seemed to
19 I, 12 | seed-plot of mankind, of which virginity itself is a growth. If He
20 I, 12 | vessel which he made, left virginity open to those whom He addressed;
21 I, 12 | in His hand the prize of virginity, points to the fountain
22 I, 12 | longs for the liberty of virginity? 4325 “Woe unto them that
23 I, 13(4329)| the treatise on the Perp. Virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
24 I, 13(4330)| xxii. on the guarding of virginity. Rome, 384.~
25 I, 13 | of Nazianzus, discussed virginity and marriage in some Greek
26 I, 13 | greater reward followed virginity, this would be motive enough
27 I, 13 | then, between marriage and virginity is as great as that between
28 I, 14 | discussion of wedlock and virginity, and has carefully steered
29 I, 14 | subordinated marriage to virginity, so he makes second marriages
30 I, 16 | born again through 4352 virginity. And whereas he says “Be
31 I, 16 | Marriage replenishes the earth, virginity fills Paradise. This too
32 I, 19 | our Lord, the herald of virginity: and the intimacies of Mesopotamia
33 I, 20 | sister of a priest dies in virginity, just as the priest is commanded
34 I, 22 | marriage ends at death; virginity thereafter begins to wear
35 I, 23 | how does that prejudice virginity? As if at the present day
36 I, 24 | different command, and for us virginity is consecrated by the Virgin
37 I, 26 | under the Gospel recover the virginity which they had lost in Judaism.
38 I, 26 | Here we have a proof that virginity does not die, and that the
39 I, 26 | blood of martyrdom, but virginity abides with Christ, and
40 I, 26 | have maintained that his virginity was the cause of the special
41 I, 26 | privilege of John, or rather of virginity in John, the Virgin Mother 4430
42 I, 27 | marriage tells in favour of virginity. For if the woman is saved
43 I, 29 | Paradise remained in perpetual virginity, when they were expelled
44 I, 29 | difference between marriage and virginity, what prevented their previous
45 I, 29 | earliest days of humanity virginity was consecrated by Paradise,
46 I, 29 | garments is the purity of virginity. In the morning we sowed
47 I, 29 | marriage under the law, serve virginity under the Gospel.~
48 I, 30 | contains the mysteries of virginity. Let us hear what the bride
49 I, 30 | speaks of the Gospel and of virginity: “The flowers appear on
50 I, 30 | pleased with the right eye of virginity, and if it be blinded the
51 I, 30 | they at once thirst for virginity; they are filled with the
52 I, 31 | blending of all virtues in virginity. 4474 “My beloved is white
53 I, 31 | white and ruddy”; white in virginity, ruddy in martyrdom. And
54 I, 31 | offereth itself willingly. For virginity is voluntary, and therefore
55 I, 31 | explain all the mysteries of virginity from the Song of Songs;
56 I, 32 | she represented in her own virginity, is described in Genesis
57 I, 32 | conceive and bear a son.” If virginity be not preferred to marriage,
58 I, 32 | works, and fasting without virginity can merit the advent of
59 I, 33 | difference between marriage and virginity, what have you to say to
60 I, 33 | will gain the rewards of virginity. It is one thing to unite
61 I, 33 | predestined to the blessing of virginity. And when all were captured,
62 I, 33 | consecrated to the Lord by pure virginity. On the other hand, Ezekiel,
63 I, 33 | to give the preference to virginity. For if a chastity which
64 I, 33 | themselves inferior to perpetual virginity.~
65 I, 34 | whole discussion to give virginity the preference over marriage,
66 I, 34 | continence, nor hint at virginity, nor urge to fasting, nor
67 I, 34 | marriage with the result that virginity and marriage are on a par:
68 I, 34 | qualifications in keeping with virginity, or it may be that he is
69 I, 34 | there may be a stigma on his virginity, or at all events virginity
70 I, 34 | virginity, or at all events virginity itself makes him proud,
71 I, 36 | afraid that if the desire for virginity were general there would
72 I, 36 | all will become virgins: virginity is a hard matter, and therefore
73 I, 37 | fruit belonging either to virginity or to continence, is eternal
74 I, 37 | chastity and to the reward of virginity, he shows that virginity
75 I, 37 | virginity, he shows that virginity is more excellent than all
76 I, 39 | afford an illustration of virginity. And whereas our Lord said
77 I, 39 | shone with the brightness of virginity. Let us pass on to James,
78 I, 39 | so rigid and perpetual a virginity, that even 4549 Josephus,
79 I, 39 | Himself a virgin, he teaches virginity in a mystery. Every perfect
80 I, 39 | words, the privileges of virginity are described. For he shows
81 I, 39 | the promises attaching to virginity which He has given us, 4560
82 I, 40 | wife if he is to show that virginity and marriage are equal:
83 I, 40 | have not preserved their virginity, in comparison of pure and
84 I, 40 | say now is, that as mere virginity without other works does
85 I, 40 | save, so all works without virginity, purity, continence, chastity,
86 I, 40 | it was possible to injure virginity if marriage were not placed
87 I, 41 | Christian chastity and angelic virginity. But as I understand that
88 I, 41 | History, and will show that virginity ever took the lead of chastity.
89 I, 41 | were ten whose ornament was virginity, and divination the reward
90 I, 41 | divination the reward of their virginity. But if in the Æolian dialect “
91 I, 41 | is rightly attributed to virginity alone. We read, too, that
92 I, 41 | unless the violation of virginity were considered a serious
93 I, 41 | death they might save their virginity. The virgin daughter of
94 I, 41 | survive the loss of their virginity, the maidens inflicted deadly
95 I, 41 | tale or filthy rumour of virginity defiled. Could any one pass
96 I, 41 | glad. But he found that virginity is dearer to the pure in
97 I, 41 | slew the violator of her virginity as he slept, and then killed
98 II, 4 | please him in perpetual virginity. He served the Law and his
99 II, 15 | is no difference between virginity and marriage, but to assert
100 II, 15 | Lord is declared not by virginity or marriage, but by the
101 II, 15 | signified marriage, by Elias virginity, let me tell them briefly
102 II, 17 | as food; but as we prefer virginity to marriage, so do we esteem
103 II, 17 | Moreover, just as true virginity is not prejudiced by the
104 II, 35 | virgins. We have preferred virginity to widowhood, widowhood
105 II, 36(4934)| some who had taken a vow of virginity, to marry.~
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