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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2421] [He places the essence of marriage in the chaste consummation itself, the first after lawful nuptials. Such is the force of this definition, which the note in ed. Migne misrepresents, as if it were a denial that second nuptials are marriage.]
[2423] Tob. iv. 15.
[2425] [The offering of the purification has a beautiful regard to the example of the turtle-dove; and the marriage-ring may have been suggested by the ringdove, a symbol of constancy in nature.]
[2426] Gen. ii. 18. [A beautiful tribute to the true wife.]
[2427] The corrections of Stanley on these lines have been adopted. They occur in the Choephoræ of Æschylus, 503, but may have been found in Sophocles, as the tragic poets borrowed from one another.
[2428] i.e., not entering into a second marriage after a wife’s death. But instead of μονογαμίου some read κακογαμίου—bad marriage.
[2429] [To be a mother, indeed, one must be first a wife; the woman who has a child out of wedlock is not entitled to this holy name.]
[2430] [A holy marriage, as here so beautifully defined, was something wholly unknown to Roman and Greek civilization. Here we find the Christian family established.]
[2431] Matt. v. 32; xix. 9.
[2432] Lev. xx. 10; Deut. xxii. 22.
[2436] Reden Jesu. St. John xii. 23-26.
[2437] “Words of Jesus.” Translation (vol. v. p. 354, ed. Edinburgh, 1856).
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