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Chapter V.
Flee wicked arts; but all the more discourse regarding
them. Wives, duties of" title="100" id="v.x.v-p1.1"/>Speak to my sisters, that they
love in our Lord, and that their husbands be sufficient for them in the
flesh and spirit. Then, again, charge my brethren in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that they love their wives, as our Lord His Church. If any
man is able in power to continue in purity,1140
| 1140 i.e., “in celibacy.”
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without boasting; if he boasts, he is undone; if he become known apart
from the bishop, he has destroyed himself.1141
It is
becoming, therefore, to men and women who marry, that they marry with the
counsel of the bishop, that the marriage may be in our Lord, and not in
lust. Let everything, therefore, be [done] for the honour of God.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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