Ante-Nicene Christian Library; Translations Of The Writings Of The Fathers Down To A.D. 325, Volume 11: The Writings Of Tertullian, Volume 1

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more pleasing that matrimony should not be contracted, inanthan it should at ali ba dissoluod: in aliori, divorco Heprohibit' except for the cause of sornication; but continenceΗe commenti. Let the one, thereiore, have the necessity of continuing; the other, further, even the poWer of not mare'

marriago certificates beforo the Lord's tribunal, and allego that a marriage suci, as He Himself has forbidden has boonduly contracted ' What is prohibited sin the passam justreferred tri is not μ adultery;' it is not fornication.' me admission os a strange man sto your couchJ lem violat

Comp. Phil. iii. 12, and c. vii. ad init. See 1 Cor. V. 14.' Comp. Jude 7, and above, an alien and stranger,' With ine referaneo

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1 Cor. iii. 16, comp. vi. 19. 3 1 Cor. vi. 15. η 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20. Seo tho last reference, and Acta xx. 28, Where the HSS. Vary be-- n Θεοὐ and Κυρίου. β De proximo. Comp. de. m. cc. v. and vii Deo de proximo amicus; de proximo in Deum peccat.' ' Comp. B. i. c. viii. sub M., Where Tertullian quotes the fame pMaage, but rendera it some hat differently. Comp. Matti vi. 24 ; Luhe xvi. 13. Saeculares.

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298 TERTULLIANUS Lord without the privi of any second person,' and without

pressum upon o selves, it mattera not in Which quarter

and reveti.

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salvationi CHAP. VII.-ria ease of a heathen whose istis is eonverted AHER marriage with him very disserent, and mueli mora

matrimony, continus in stat atate, stili they are excused, as

Nominibus; si honoribus.' Sanctis in uia. Comp. SL Paulla antithesis ot ἀδίκων and ἀγων in

1 Cor. Vi. 1.

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stances ; and they ars biaden to persevere in their marriodstate, and are sanctified, and have hope of mahing a gain ' 'held out to them. Ii, then, a marriage of this hind Dontracted before conversionJ standa ratified besore God, Whyshould not lane contracted after conVersionJ too go prospe o ly forWard, so as not to be thus harassed is pressures, and stratis, and hindrances, and defilementa, having already fas it hasJ the partiat sanction os divine grace Because,

among the Gentiles to the exercise of some eminent heavenly

regard, a terror to her Gentile husband, so as to mahe him less ready to annoy her, lem active in laying snares for her,

tess diligent in playing the spy over hor. He has feli

accordiniy, some heathen men are found not to altrink in horror hom Christian women, iust in ordor to exterminate them, to Wrest them aWay, to exclude them hom the Iaith.

So long as marriage of this hind is procured by the Evil one,

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os union betaeem partitera in the falia enlarged on in

Let us further inquire, as is me mere in very deed inquisitora os divine sentences, whether they be lawfulty filius comdemneM. Even among the nations, do not ali the strictest torta and most tenacious os disciplino interdici stela own flaves from marrying out of their own honse l-in order, os courae, that they may not mn into lascivious excess, deserttheir duties, purvey their lorde goods to strangere. Yet, surther, have not the nation decided that such momen ashave, aster their lords' format warning, persisted in inter- course Mith other men's flaves, may be claimed as flaves Shali earthly disciplines bo held moro strici stan heavenlyprescripis; so that Gentiis Women, ii united in strangere, lose their liberty; oura conjoin to themselves the devit's

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27. Mati. v. 3; but Tertullian has omitted spiritn, ita ha inserta inde Pa. c. c., Where he refers to the aame pamam. In Gho vi. 20 thereis no τῆ πινεύματι.ε Censum. 3 Invecta. Comp. de Pa. c. xiii. ad init.

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equassy at the banquet M God; equalty in stratis, in persecutions, in refreshments. Neither hides foughq smin theother; nesther ahuns the oster; neister is troublesomo totho osteri Tho sita is visited, the indigent retioved, With

pedient' si Filii.

Comp. de Or. c. v. ad .; de Pa. c. ix. ad M.; ad in. i. o. T. ad init.

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