Matthew 19:10
Douay-Rheims
His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
For as the deed without the will does not constitute a sin; so a righteous act is not in the deed unless the will go with it. That therefore is honourable continence, not which mutilation of body of necessity enforces, but which the will of holy purpose embraces.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 19:10-12
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.