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Apostolic Constitutions, on Heb 13:4
Apostolic Constitutions · c. A.D. 380
Heb 13:4 · Douay-Rheims
“Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
On this verse:
“These things the laws have forbidden, but they have honoured marriage, and have called it blessed, since God has blessed it who joined male and female together. And wise Solomon somewhere says: "A wife is suited to her husband by the Lord." And David says: "Thy wife is like a flourishing vine in the sides of thine house; thy children like olive-branches round about thy table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord." Wherefore "marriage is honourable" and comely, and the begetting of children pure, for there is no evil in that which is good.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.