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Chapter III.
But that the merit of virginity
may shine forth more clearly, and that there may be a better
understanding as to how worthy it is of God, let this be considered,
that the Lord God, our Saviour, when, for the salvation of the human
race, he condescended to assume mankind, chose no other than a
virgin’s womb, that he might show how virtue of this kind
especially pleased him; and that he might point out the blessedness of
chastity to both sexes, he had a virgin mother, while he himself was
ever to remain in a like condition. He thus furnished in his own person
to men, and in the person of his mother to women, an example of
virginity, by which it might be proved, with respect to both sexes,
that the blessed state of purity possessed the
fullness of divinity,170
| 170 The text is here most
uncertain; that adopted by Halm seems unintelligible. |
for whatever dwelt in the Son was also wholly in the mother. But why
should I take pains to make known the excellent and surpassing merit of
chastity, and to set forth the glorious good of virginity, when I am
not ignorant that many have discoursed on this subject, and have proved
its blessedness by most conclusive reasons, and since it can never be a
matter of doubt to any reflecting mind, that a thing has all the more
merit, the more difficult it is of accomplishment? For if any one
judges chastity to be of no moment or only of small consequence, it is
certain that he is either ignorant of the matter, or is not willing to
incur the trouble it implies. Hence it comes to pass that those always
derogate from the importance of chastity, who either do not possess it,
or who are unwillingly compelled to maintain it.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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