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Tertullian: Treatises on Marriage and Remarriage: To His Wife, An Exhortation to Chastity, Monogamy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Though not classified among Tertullian’s major compositions, this treatise is of considerable historical interest and theological importance for understanding early patristic teaching on the family.

equally true that no man departs this life unless God wills it. For it is necessary that He who brought us into the world should also usher us forth from it. Therefore, when God wills that a woman lose her husband in death, He also wills that she should be done with marriage itself. Why attempt to restore what God has put asunder? Why spurn the liberty which is offered you by enslaving yourself once more in the bonds of matrimony? Art thou bound in marriage? Scripture says, seek not to he loosed.
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