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Chapter XI.—The
Same Argument.
For consider, O virgins, how he,2587
desiring with all his might that
believers in Christ should be chaste, endeavours by many arguments to
show them the dignity of chastity, as when he says,2588
Now, concerning the things
whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a
woman,” thence showing already very clearly that it is good not
to touch2589
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the original the two words are different. In the quotation from
St. Paul it is ἅπτεσθαι;
here it is προσψαύειν
. Nothing could be gained by using two words in the
translation.—Tr. | a woman,
laying it down. and setting it forth unconditionally. But
afterwards, being aware of the weakness of the less continent, and
their passion for intercourse, he permitted those who are unable to
govern the flesh to use their own wives, rather than, shamefully
transgressing, to give themselves up to fornication. Then, after
having given this permission, he immediately added these
words,2590
“that Satan
tempt you not for your incontinency;” which means, “if you,
such as you are, cannot, on account of the incontinence and softness of
your bodies, be perfectly continent, I will rather permit you to have
intercourse with your own wives, lest, professing perfect continence,
ye be constantly tempted by the evil one, and be inflamed with lust
after other men’s wives.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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