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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
Liber de monogamia

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LXII. [1] Sed huic disceptationi finem dominica pronuntiatio imponet: Erunt, inquit, tanquam angeli: si non nubendo quia nec moriendo, utique nec ulli simili necessitati succidendo corporalis condicionis, quia et angeli aliquando tanquam homines fuerunt edendo et bibendo et pedes lavacro porrigendo: humanam enim induerant superficiem salva intus substantia propria. [2] Igitur si angeli, facti  tanquam homines, in eadem substantia spiritus carnalem tractationem  susceperunt, cur non et homines, facti tanquam angeli, in eadem substantia carnis spiritalem subeant dispositionem, [3] non  magis sollemnibus carnis obnoxii sub angelico indumento quam angeli sollemnibus spiritus sub humano, nec ideo non permansuri in carne quia non in sollemnibus carnis, cum nec angeli ideo non et in spiritu permanserint quia non et in sollemnibus spiritus? [4] Denique  non dixit, 'erunt angeli', ne homines negaret, sed 'tanquam angeli', ut homines conservaret: non abstulit substantiam, cui similitudinem attribuit.




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