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Saint Augustine: Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects is unavailable, but you can change that!

A collection of nine short works by Augustine and translated by numerous editors for the Fathers of the Church Series. Among these works includes: • The Good of Marriage • Adulterous Marriages • Holy Virginity • Faith and Works • The Creed • Faith and the Creed • The Care to be Taken for the Dead • In Answer to the Jews • The Divination of Demons

It would be tedious to inquire and to discuss which of these opinions is true, or whether another or other opinions can still be extracted from these words. (3) This is what we now say, that according to the present condition of birth and death, which we know and in which we were created, the marriage of male and female is something good. This union divine Scripture so commands that it is not permitted a woman who has been dismissed by her husband to marry again, as long as her husband
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