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13. What therefore he says,
“She, that is unmarried, thinketh of the things of the Lord, that
she may be holy both in body and spirit;” we are not to take in
such sense, as to think that a chaste Christian wife is not holy in
body. Forsooth unto all the faithful it was said, “Know ye not
that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Ghost within you, Whom ye
have from God?”1971
Therefore the bodies also of the
married are holy, so long as they keep faith to one another and to
God. And that this sanctity of either of them, even an unbelieving
partner does not stand in the way of, but rather that the sanctity
of the wife profits the unbelieving husband, and the sanctity of
the husband profits the unbelieving wife, the same Apostle is
witness, saying, “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in
the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in a brother.”1972
Wherefore
that was said according to the greater sanctity of the unmarried
than of the married, unto which there is also due a greater reward,
according as, the one being a good, the other is a greater good:
inasmuch as also she has this thought only, how to please the Lord.
For it is not that a female who believes, keeping married chastity,
thinks not how to please the Lord; but assuredly less so, in that
she thinks of the things of the world, how to please her husband.
For this is what he would say of them, that they may, in a certain
way, find themselves obliged by marriage to think of the things of
the world, how to please their husbands.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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