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Tertullian

To His Wife - Book I

Design of the Treatise. Disavowal of Personal Motives in Writing It.

Marriage Lawful, But Not Polygamy.

Marriage Good: Celibacy Preferable.

Of the Infirmity of the Flesh, and Similar Pleas.

Of the Love of Offspring as a Plea for Marriage.

Examples of Heathens Urged as Commendatory of Widowhood and Celibacy.

The Death of a Husband is God's Call to the Widow to Continence. Further Evidences from Scripture and from Heathenism.

Conclusion.