Marriage and Virginity
Augustine of Hippo
Theology
The Excellence of Marriage, Holy Virginity, The Excellence of Widowhood, Adulterous Marriages, and Continence.
Chapters 105
- same merit, if they do not differ in other works. ≈ 3 min
- It is clear from the phrasing of these propositions that baptism was a central category in ≈ 3 min
- It is clear from the phrasing of these propositions that baptism was a central category in ≈ 3 min
- It is clear from the phrasing of these propositions that baptism was a central category in ≈ 65 min
- more other opinions can be carved out of those words, would take a long time. ≈ 4 min
- acquainted, and in which we were created, the union of man and woman is something of ≈ 11 min
- their wives even when they are pregnant. Whatever married people do between themselves ≈ 3 min
- intercourse even when it is not for the purpose of having children, the apostle allows this as ≈ 3 min
- sinful, although demanding it more than is necessary for procreation is a venial sin, whereas ≈ 4 min
- meant it is also lawful to take another wife. On this point sacred scripture raises a difficult ≈ 4 min
- when there has been a divorce, both the woman and the man marry anyone they choose ≈ 3 min
- good merely because it is good in comparison with fornication. In that case they would be two ≈ 11 min
- fornication, it would be less of a sin than the fornication, but it would still be a sin. Now, ≈ 4 min
- with the Lord, in order to be holy both in body and mind (1 Cor 7:34), we should not ≈ 12 min
- come about if later on they enter into a proper commitment. ≈ 3 min
- between the two persons, once marriage has been entered into it cannot be dissolved by any ≈ 8 min
- not also right for a woman to have several husbands, even for the sake of having children, if it ≈ 8 min
- purpose for which marriage was instituted, are to be compared with the fathers. They sought ≈ 4 min
- to those fathers who were married, if not perhaps even to be considered superior to them ≈ 4 min
- about it. Yet I do not ask what marriages are comparable to the marriages of the holy fathers, ≈ 8 min
- exist in deeds, I can mention an example which no one among Catholic Christians would ≈ 8 min
- perfection. It can happen that someone does not have some perfection that someone else does ≈ 4 min
- comparable to an obedient wife, but whether a less obedient virgin is comparable to a more ≈ 4 min
- his only son by killing him himself.†54 It is not wrong for me to call him his only son, as he ≈ 11 min
- God to be conscious of the need to be careful about how they live while still here on earth, ≈ 42 min
- good thing that is theirs. We wrote about that, to the extent it seemed necessary, in another ≈ 4 min
- the grounds that they give birth to virgins. This is not something good about marriage, but ≈ 4 min
- blood. If you are looking for her mother, it is the Church. No one gives birth to consecrated ≈ 3 min
- they produce children honorably, because they do so lawfully, because they do so chastely, ≈ 3 min
- Virginal integrity, on the other hand, and the freedom from all sexual intimacy that comes ≈ 3 min
- necessary for the kingdom of heaven, but only for this world, in that marriages endure the ≈ 16 min
- adultery; others, defending marriage, have wanted the perfection of perpetual virginity to be ≈ 4 min
- going to marry, but I will spare you that (1 Cor 1:28), he wanted to avoid mentioning a ≈ 42 min
- that this vice comes from being idle. At the same time, he says, being idle they learn how to ≈ 4 min
- fact are held back from marrying, not by attachment to a ≈ 7 min
- have been educated in your Church, and there they have grown for you from their mothers' ≈ 3 min
- more exalted they are, the more they should make themselves humble in everything, in order ≈ 4 min
- legitimate marriage, you who have not allowed your mortal body the prospect of having an ≈ 20 min
- one can be continent unless God grants it, even this too, to know whose gift it is, was also part ≈ 3 min
- gift is not one's own but comes from God, is the human being's own accomplishment. On the ≈ 7 min
- hundredfold fruit.†59 The most imposing evidence in favor of this view comes from the ≈ 4 min
- hundredfold fruit.†59 The most imposing evidence in favor of this view comes from the ≈ 4 min
- others; each person has his own gifts. Sometimes one person receives fewer gifts but greater ≈ 4 min
- those different degrees of fruitfulness are to be understood in some other way, which we may ≈ 4 min
- against love, that love that is the greatest of all gifts, and without which, whatever other gifts ≈ 7 min
- security, and give in to sins on the understanding that they will quickly and easily be wiped ≈ 3 min
- by sins of human frailty. Though they may be minor ones and few in number, they are still ≈ 3 min
- this life without committing any sin; I do not argue with that, and do not contradict it.†67 ≈ 11 min
- in return whatever love you would have had to spend in marriage. ≈ 4 min
- become children of God.†78 He does not look for beauty of body, but the moral beauty of ≈ 19 min
- encouragement. With the instruction we will know what we ought to do, and with the ≈ 8 min
- with the result that when refused the marital act the partner might be tempted by Satan and ≈ 4 min
- are also a great gift from God. Because of this, when the desires of the flesh lead to the degree ≈ 4 min
- mean that marrying again is condemned, but that it is honored less. Just as the excellence of ≈ 4 min
- brings it about, not because the law requires it but because charity commends it, that even ≈ 4 min
- persons think about what concerns God, and how to please God,†9 he went on to say: I say ≈ 8 min
- Because there is another excellence that it excels, the excellence you possess is more to be ≈ 4 min
- twice and Anna lived for many years after the early death of her one husband, do not think at ≈ 4 min
- marry, not because of the desires of the flesh, but out of obedience. The people of God had to ≈ 26 min
- can have all of the three things that made Anna's merit outstanding. You have had only one ≈ 24 min
- consider how far she surpasses you in that King's kingdom? No, that is another question. ≈ 24 min
- hope to receive the reward for it, to remember me too in your prayers, along with all your own ≈ 22 min
- adultery. In that case he does not cause her to become an adulteress by divorcing her, but he ≈ 4 min
- give this command—not I, but the Lord—that a wife should not leave her husband; but if she ≈ 19 min
- difficult to understand, did not the other evangelists summarize the same material in a more ≈ 23 min
- would forbid it, and the apostle would not say, It is I, not the Lord, who says it (1 Cor 7:12). If ≈ 4 min
- might take offense at the breakup of marriages and abhor the very doctrine of salvation that ≈ 4 min
- Those of the Israelites who were still able to keep foreign wives divorced them.†9 What was ≈ 4 min
- this is why it is not the Lord but the apostle who says not to leave. Certainly he possesses the ≈ 4 min
- the faithful advice of a fellow slave based on the compassionate love that he has by the ≈ 16 min
- Consider two married people, both in the same state of unbelief, just as they were when they ≈ 4 min
- something is not wrong, and at the same time doing something else is also not wrong, one ≈ 4 min
- men and women approve or do not approve, this is required by justice, which he upholds. ≈ 4 min
- tempted by a woman, not yet herself a believer, who wanted to marry him and promised to ≈ 7 min
- not wrong. ≈ 4 min
- commandment from the Lord, we should listen to the apostle. He guides us in the Holy Spirit ≈ 4 min
- am not unaware that the whole question of marriage is still very unclear and complex. I would ≈ 16 min
- Moreover, even more outrageous, the woman herself is not an adulteress, because with the ≈ 4 min
- lives (1 Cor 7:39), that is, as long as he has not departed from the body. A woman subject to a ≈ 4 min
- present in that person, and that person does not lose that sacrament even if he or she is never ≈ 23 min
- wife leaves her husband, not because of adultery but for celibacy, and he or she stays celibate. ≈ 4 min
- for the purpose of having children! ≈ 3 min
- respectability of marriage. He did not say, "If they have no children, ≈ 11 min
- Christian, to get them not to insist on the blood of their adulterous wives by telling them what ≈ 4 min
- those adulteresses, and do not seek their blood. Your new wives will comfort you in any grief ≈ 4 min
- can be raised than those you yourself mentioned. As you do not want it to be adultery when ≈ 24 min
- sin, frightened of perishing eternally because of continuing in adulterous marriages, we ≈ 17 min
- continence has to be looked for from God, the psalm also sings: Place a guard on my mouth, ≈ 4 min
- the inside, and the things that are on the outside will be clean too (Mt 23:26). Also, in another ≈ 4 min
- what is usually meant by the word "continence" used in its literal sense, suffers no violation ≈ 4 min
- and battling against vice, and the evil of carnal desire is not conquered except by the good of ≈ 4 min
- let sin rule in your mortal body for you to obey its desires, and do not offer your bodies to sin ≈ 4 min
- to death the deeds of the flesh, in order to live, the trumpet that he sounds certainly makes ≈ 4 min
- flesh. This, they will say, is because a human being is a creature with reason, having a rational ≈ 8 min
- fight well, they rejoice in him in the midst of their fear. At the same time even though they are ≈ 4 min
- sin, as though the constellations decreed it and heaven sinned first by making those decrees ≈ 8 min
- make them with the power to sin if they chose to, and not to sin if they chose not to. He ≈ 4 min
- does any evil nor suffers any evil. Every good thing has its origin in him, even those that can ≈ 8 min
- We have within us inclinations to commit sin, but if we do not give in to them we do no evil ≈ 5 min
- flesh, and the law in our bodies rebels against the law of our mind, does not mean that there is ≈ 8 min
- husband and wife, the spirit and the flesh. The first member of the pair cares for the second, ≈ 17 min
- malicious demons, in order to obtain through their agency wicked ≈ 8 min
- opposed to itself, though for its own good. Those inclinations, whether in the body or in the ≈ 8 min
- Why, though, is he not content to say, Put them all aside, but adds the phrase, you too? Only ≈ 4 min
- victorious with unexpected and unhoped for ease, let us give glory to him who gives us ≈ 114 min
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
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| Language | English |
| Era | Modern |
| Categories | Theology · Family & Marriage |
| Length | 105 chapters · ≈ 16 h 42 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |