1 Timothy 4:3 Douay-Rheims

Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known the truth.

Augustine of Hippo

A.D. 354–430 Patristic

The fact that the Lord was invited and came to the wedding, even without considering the mystical meaning, was meant to affirm what he himself created. For there were going to be those, about whom the apostle spoke, who would forbid marriage and say that marriage is an evil and that the devil created it, although the same Lord in the Gospel, when asked whether a man is allowed to divorce his wife for any reason, replied that he is not allowed except in the case of fornication.

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A.D. 430 · on 1Tim 4:3 (TRACTATES ON JOHN 9.2)

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.

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