On Marriage and Family LifeeBookIt.com, 2021 M02 2 - 200 pages Inspired by the epistles of St Paul, St John Chrysostom has many important and practical things to say to Christian couples and families. |
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... Wherefore he says, “Now concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me.” For they had written to him, “Whether it was right to abstain from one's wife, or not:” and writing back in answer to this and giving rules about marriage, he ...
... Wherefore he says, “Now concerning the things whereof you wrote unto me.” For they had written to him, “Whether it was right to abstain from one's wife, or not:” and writing back in answer to this and giving rules about marriage, he ...
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... Wherefore he says, “Defraud not one another, unless it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer.” It is prayer with unusual earnestness which he here means. For if he is forbidding those who have intercourse ...
... Wherefore he says, “Defraud not one another, unless it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer.” It is prayer with unusual earnestness which he here means. For if he is forbidding those who have intercourse ...
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... wherefore all the purity flits away. But in the case before us it is not so. But how? The idolater is unclean but the woman is not unclean. For if indeed she were a partner with him in that wherein he is unclean, I mean his impiety, she ...
... wherefore all the purity flits away. But in the case before us it is not so. But how? The idolater is unclean but the woman is not unclean. For if indeed she were a partner with him in that wherein he is unclean, I mean his impiety, she ...
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... Wherefore he said, “And he himself be content to dwell with her.” For, tell me, what harm is there when the duties of piety remain unimpaired and there are good hopes about the unbeliever, that those already joined should so abide and ...
... Wherefore he said, “And he himself be content to dwell with her.” For, tell me, what harm is there when the duties of piety remain unimpaired and there are good hopes about the unbeliever, that those already joined should so abide and ...
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... Wherefore he adds, “A brother is not under bondage, nor yet a sister, in such cases.” If day by day he buffet thee and keep up combats on this account, it is better to separate. For this is what he glances at, saying, “But God has ...
... Wherefore he adds, “A brother is not under bondage, nor yet a sister, in such cases.” If day by day he buffet thee and keep up combats on this account, it is better to separate. For this is what he glances at, saying, “But God has ...
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