To His Wife
Tertullian
Book 2 · Chapter 1
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Chapter I.—Reasons Which Led to the Writing of This Second Book.
Very lately, best beloved fellow-servant in the Lord, I
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To His Wife
Tertullian
Very lately, best beloved fellow-servant in the Lord, I
Potissimum; Gr. “μόνον,” 1 Cor. vii. 39.
Proclivium.
Ps. lxix. 23 (according to the “Great Bible” version, ed. 1539. This is the translation found in the “Book of Common Prayer”). Comp. Rom. xiv. 13.
Necessitatibus.
1 Cor. vii. 6–8.
Exerte. Comp. the use of “exertus” in de Bapt., cc. xii. and xviii.
1 Cor. vii. 39, where the μόνον ἐν Κυρίῳ is on the same footing as γυνὴ δέδεται ἐφ᾽ ὅσον χρόνον ζῇ ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς: comp. c. ix. and Rom. vii. 1 (in the Eng. ver. 2).