On Monogamy
Tertullian
Chapter 7
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Chapter VII.—From Patriarchal, Tertullian Comes to Legal, Precedents.
After the ancient examples of the patriarchs, let us equally pass
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On Monogamy
Tertullian
After the ancient examples of the patriarchs, let us equally pass
See Matt. v. 17.
See Acts xv. 10.
See Matt. v. 20.
Deut. xxv. 5, 6.
See Matt. xxii. 23–33; Mark xii. 18–27; Luke xx. 26–38. Comp. ad Ux., l. i.
Gen. i. 28. Comp. de Ex. Cast., c. vi.
See Ex. xx. 5; and therefore there must be sons begotten from whom to exact them.
Comp. de Ex. Cast., c. vi.
See Jer. xxxi. 29, 30 (in LXX. xxxviii. 29, 30); Ezek. xviii. 1–4.
Matt. xix. 12, often quoted.
Matt. xxiii. 8.
1 Cor. vii. 39.
“Adimit;” but the two mss. extant of this treatise read “admittit” =admits.
Lev. xx. 21, not exactly given.
Lev. xxii. 13, where there is no command to her to return, in the Eng. ver.: in the LXX. there is.
Ex. xx. 12 in brief.
Summus sacerdos et magnus patris. But Oehler notices a conjecture of Jos. Scaliger, “agnus patris,” when we must unite “the High Priest and Lamb of the Father.”
De suo. Comp. de Bapt., c. xvii., ad fin.; de Cult. Fem., l. i. c. v., l. ii. c. ix.; de Ex. Cast., c. iii. med.; and for the ref. see Rev. iii. 18.
Gal. iii. 27; where it is εἰς Χριστόν, however.
See Rev. i. 6.
Matt. viii. 21, 22; Luke ix. 59, 60.
Lev. xxi. 11.