On Exhortation to Chastity
Tertullian
Early Church
Chapters 15
- Table of Contents ≈ 2 min
- Chapter I.--Introduction. Virginity Classified Under Three Several Species. ≈ 4 min
- Chapter II.--The Blame of Our Misdeeds Not to Be Cast Upon God. The One Power Which Rests with Man is the Power of Volit ≈ 6 min
- Chapter III.--Of Indulgence and Pure Volition. The Question Illustrated. [521] ≈ 8 min
- Chapter IV.--Further Remarks Upon the Apostle's Language. ≈ 5 min
- Chapter V.--Unity of Marriage Taught by Its First Institution, and by the Apostle's Application of that Primal Type to C ≈ 3 min
- Chapter VI.--The Objection from the Polygamy of the Patriarchs Answered. ≈ 3 min
- Chapter VII.--Even the Old Discipline Was Not Without Precedents to Enforce Monogamy. But in This as in Other Respects, ≈ 5 min
- Chapter VIII.--If It Be Granted that Second Marriage is Lawful, Yet All Things Lawful are Not Expedient. ≈ 3 min
- Chapter IX.--Second Marriage a Species of Adultery, Marriage Itself Impugned, as Akin to Adultery. ≈ 5 min
- Chapter X.--Application of the Subject. Advantages of Widowhood. ≈ 4 min
- Chapter XI.--The More the Wives, the Greater the Distraction of the Spirit. ≈ 1 min
- Chapter XII.--Excuses Commonly Urged in Defence of Second Marriage. Their Futility, Especially in the Case of Christians ≈ 6 min
- Chapter XIII.--Examples from Among the Heathen, as Well as from the Church, to Enforce the Foregoing Exhortation. ≈ 5 min
- Elucidation. ≈ 2 min
| Author | Tertullian |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Early Church |
| Categories | Early Church · Christian Classics |
| Length | 15 chapters · ≈ 1 h 2 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · EPUB |
