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Tertullian, on 1Tim 2:2
Tertullian · c. A.D. 150–220
1Tim 2:2 · Douay-Rheims
“For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.”
On this verse:
“How detrimental to faith, how obstructive to holiness, second marriages are, the discipline of the Church and the prescription of the apostle declare, when he suffers not men twice married to preside (over a Church ), when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been "the wife of one man; " for it behoves God's altar to be set forth pure.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.