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- On the Good of Marriage
- Introduction
- Section 1. Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race
- Section 3. This we now say, that, according to this condition of being born and dying
- Section 4. There is this further, that in that very debt which married persons pay one
- Section 6. Further, in the very case of the more immoderate requirement of the due of
- Section 7. But I marvel, if, as it is allowed to put away a wife who
- Section 8. |Honorable,| therefore, |is marriage in all, and the bed undefiled.
- Section 9. Truly we must consider, that God gives us some goods
- Section 11. And yet not to these themselves is marriage a sin
- Section 12. For, whereas that natural use, when it pass beyond the compact of marriage
- Section 14. And not without just cause a doubt is raised
- Section 15. For what Christian men of our time being free from the marriage bond
- Section 16. Therefore if haply, which whether it can take place
- Section 18. For what food is unto the conservation of the man
- Section 19. Therefore as many women as there are now
- Section 22. If, therefore, even they who are united in marriage only for the purpose of
- Section 23. Nor, in that the Law orders a man to be purified even after intercourse
- Section 24. Marriage, I say, is a good, and may be
- Section 26. But, in order that it may be more clearly understood
- Section 27. Therefore at that time, when the Law also
- Section 28. Therefore, if we compare the things themselves, we may no way doubt that the
- Section 32. Therefore the good of marriage throughout all nations and all men stands in the
- Section 33. And, the case being thus, enough and more than enough answer has been made