A Plea for the Christians — Chapter 33

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[This our Lord commends (Matt. xix. 12) as a voluntary act of private self-devotion.]

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[There is perhaps a touch of the rising Phrygian influence in this passage; yet the language of St. Paul (1 Tim. v. 9) favoured this view, no doubt, in primitive opinion. See Speaker’s Comm. on 1 Tim. iii. 2. Ed. Scribners, New York.]

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Matt. xix. 9.

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[But Callistus, heretical Bishop of Rome (a.d. 218.), authorized even third marriages in the clergy. Hippolytus, vol. vi. p. 343, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Edinburgh Series.]

Chapter 33

Chapter XXXIII.—Chastity of the Christians with Respect to Marriage.

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