On Exhortation to Chastity — Chapter 13

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Ægium (Jos. Scaliger, in Oehler).

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But Tertullian overlooks the fact that both Ovid and Virgil represent her as more than willing to marry Æneas. [Why should he note the fables of poets? This testimony of a Carthaginian is historic evidence of the fact.]

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Comp. Matt. xxii. 29, 30; Mark xii. 24, 25; Luke xx. 34–36.

Chapter 13

Chapter XIII.—Examples from Among the Heathen, as Well as from the Church, to Enforce the Foregoing Exhortation.

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