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- On the Good of Widowhood.
- Section 2. Whereas, therefore, in every question, which relates to life and conduct
- Section 3. Therefore thus saith the Apostle, the teacher of the Gentiles
- Section 4. Lo, there is your good compared to that good
- Section 5. Wherefore also when he was advising married persons not to defraud one another of
- Section 6. Wherefore this in the first place you ought to know
- Section 7. But whereas the Apostle, when commending the fruit of unmarried men and women
- Section 8. Whence, also, what the Apostle Paul said of the unmarried woman
- Section 9. Learn, therefore, that thy good, yea, rather, remember what thou hast learned
- Section 10. Nor, because I called Ruth blessed, Anna more blessed
- Section 11. But thou who both hast sons, and livest in that end of the world
- Section 12. But since, as the Lord saith, |Not all receive this word
- Section 13. Wherefore they who say that the marriages of such are not marriages
- Section 14. Wherefore I cannot indeed say, of females who have fallen away from a better
- Section 16. For that also is no foolish question which is wont to be proposed
- Section 19. These discussions, therefore, concerning the different deserts of married women
- Section 21. These things I am compelled to admonish by reason of certain little discourses of
- Section 22. Now it has been my wish on this account to say something on this
- Section 23. If, therefore, you had not as yet vowed unto God widowed continence
- Section 24. Let the inner ear of the virgin also
- Section 25. The past day returns not hereafter, and after yesterday proceeds to-day
- Section 27. Indeed in all spiritual delights, which unmarried women enjoy
- Section 28. Go on therefore in your course, and run with perseverance