Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian…
(1885)
“ Since this is so, how will a woman have room for another husband, who is, even to futurity, in the possession of her own? (Moreover, we speak to each sex, even if our discourse address itself but to the one; inasmuch as one discipline is incumbent [on both] .) She will have one in spirit, one in flesh. This will be adultery, the conscious affection of one woman for two men. ”
Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian…
(1885)
“ Therefore, if a divorced woman, who has been separated (from her husband) in soul as well as body, through discord, anger, hatred, and the causes of these—injury, or contumely, or whatsoever cause of complaint—is bound to a personal enemy, not to say a husband, how much more will one who, neither by her own nor her husband’s fault, but by an event resulting from the Lord’s law, has been—not separated from, but left behind by—her consort, be his, even when dead, to whom, even when dead, she owes (the debt of) concord? ”
Tertullian,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian…
(1885)
“ For let us reflect that divorce either is caused by discord, or else causes discord; whereas death is an event resulting from the law of God, not from an offence of man; and that it is a debt which all owe, even the unmarried. ”
