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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... 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 introduces also the discourse concerning virginity: “It is good for ...
... 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 introduces also the discourse concerning virginity: “It is good for ...
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... unto prayer. But by continence prayer is made more perfect. For he did not say merely, “That ye may pray;” but, “That ye may give yourselves unto it,” as though what he speaks of might cause not uncleanness but much occupation. “And may ...
... unto prayer. But by continence prayer is made more perfect. For he did not say merely, “That ye may pray;” but, “That ye may give yourselves unto it,” as though what he speaks of might cause not uncleanness but much occupation. “And may ...
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... unto her husband Here, seeing that both on the score of continence and other pretexts, and because of infirmities of temper, it fell out that separations took place: it were better, he says, that such things should not be at all; but ...
... unto her husband Here, seeing that both on the score of continence and other pretexts, and because of infirmities of temper, it fell out that separations took place: it were better, he says, that such things should not be at all; but ...
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... unto faith, saith he. Be not then contentious neither be troubled; for the faith has cast out all these things. “Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. Have you been called, having an unbelieving wife? Continue to ...
... unto faith, saith he. Be not then contentious neither be troubled; for the faith has cast out all these things. “Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. Have you been called, having an unbelieving wife? Continue to ...
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