Capitolo 33
polishing a light! What curses would follow such loss to the
Church, that that torn among the philosophers it would result from such
marriage! As unsuitable, as tearful it would be for me, who
nature had constituted the whole world to devote himself/herself/themselves to a woman,
only, and sottoporrsi to such humiliation! You vehemently
refused this marriage that she felt it would be in every way
ignominious and serious to me.
Besides thinking so the dishonor to me, she remembered to the
the works of the conjugal life, to avoid of what the apostle
it exhorts us, while saying: "Art you it loosened from a wife? you don't look for a wife.
But and if you get married, you hasts didn't sin; and if a virgin gets married him,
her haths didn't sin. Nevertheless such it will have the difficulty in the
meat: but I spare her" (me Cor. vii, 27). And again: "But I am able
Have him to be free from cares" (me Cor. vii, 32). But if I am able
neither keeps in mind of the suggestion of the apostle neither of the
saints respect to this heavy joke of marriage, she offered me at least
you consider the suggestion of the philosophers, and attentively hung that that
or you/he/she had been written on this subject by them or pertaining to them
life. The saints themselves have often spoken also and sincerely
on this subject for the purpose to warn us. This way St. Jerome,
in his/her first book against Jovinianus, ago exposed Theophrastus
in the great detail the intolerable bothers and the without end
troubles of the conjugal life, showing more anymore with the
convincing matters that any wise man should ever have a wife, and
concluding his/her reasons for this exhortation of philosophic with these
words: "Who among Cristiano you/they would not be submerged from this way
do you deduce as these advanced by Theophrastus?"
In the same job, St. Jerome says again, as Cicero, asked from
Hircius after his/her divorce of Terentia if he would marry him the
sister of Hircius, answered that he would have done such any what, saying
what he could not devote to a wife and to the philosophy to the