Capitolo 67
not the power to embrace a sister, a wife', but he says 'to conduct
around', wanting to say with what such women you/they can legally be sustained
from them out of the wages of their preaching, but that owes us to be
any carnal obligation among them."
Certainly that Pharisees that he/she spoke inside him of the God,
saying: "This man, if Him pits a prophet, would have known who and
what woman's way this is that toucheths Him: for her it is a
sinner" (vii of Luke, 39), very you/he/she would have suspected more reasonably
the moral lowness of the God, in consideration of the matter from a purely human
place of observation, that my enemies could suspect him/it of me. One whom had
seen Our God's mother submitted to the care of the young one
(John the xix, 27), or that you/he/she had seen the prophets that indulge and
sojourning with widows (I Govern xvii, 10), you/he/she would likewise have had
a far more logical earth for suspect. And what is able mine
calumniators has said if theirs had had but sees Malchus how imprisoned
monk of whoever that St. Jerome writes, while living in the same but with his
wife? Undoubtedly you/they would have considered him to them criminal in the
studious famous to have praised extremely what he saw so, while saying
thereof: There was a certain old called men Malchus, a native of
this region and his/her wife with him in his/her hut. Both of them they were
sincerely religious, and they passed the threshold of so often the
church that is probable that you would have thought of them the Zacharias and Elisabeth
of the Gospel, to only save that John was not with them."
Because, finally, face such men brake him to slander the holy fathers,
whose we frequently read, no, and you/he/she has also seen with ours really
eyes, convents founder for women and making provision for them
maintenance, following with this the example of the seven deacons
who the apostles sent in front of them to assure food and to take takes care of him of
the women? (You of the actions, 5). For the necessities of sex weaker the help of the