26.  Let those also who marry but once not reprobate those who have consented to a second marriage The condemnation of a second marriage, which the Benedictine Editor and others import into this passage, is not to be found in it.  τοὺς δευτέρῳ γάμῳ συμπεριενεχθέντας neither means “qui ad secundas nuptias ultro se dejecere,” nor even “who have involved themselves” (R.W.C.), but simply “who have consented to,”—or, “consented together in—a second marriage,” without any intimation of censure.  See V. 9; VI. 13:  Ecclus. xxv. 1; γυνὴ καὶ ἁνὴρ ἑαυτοῖς συμπεριφερόμενοι; 2 Macc. ix. 27; Euseb. H. E. ix. 9, 7:  ἀνεξικάκως καὶ συμμέτρως συμπεριφέροιντο αὐτοῖς; Zeno, ap. Diog. Laert. vii. 18; τὸ συμπεριφερεσθαι τοῖς φίλοις.  Diog. Laert. vii. 13:  εὐσυμπερίφορος.  Polyb. IV. 35, § 7, and II. 17, § 12.  The gentleness with which Cyril here speaks of second marriages is in striking contrast with the passionate vehemence of Tertullian in the treatise de Monogamia, and elsewhere.  Aug. de Hæresibus, cc. 26, 38, reckons the condemnation of second marriage among the heretical doctrines of the Montanists and Cathari.  In the treatise de Bono Viduitatis, c. 6, he argues that a second marriage is not to be condemned, but is less honourable than widowhood, and severely rebukes the heretical teaching on this point of Tertullian, the Montanists, and the Novatians.  De Bono Conjugali, c. 21:  Sacramentum nuptiarum temporis nostri sic ad unum virum et unam uxorem redactum est, ut Ecclesiæ dispensatorem non liceat ordinare nisi unius uxoris virum.  On the practice of the Church at various times see Bingham, IV. v. 1–4; Suicer, Thesaur. Διγαμία.:  for though continence is a noble and admirable thing, yet it is also permissible to enter upon a second marriage, that the weak may not fall into fornication.  For it is good for them, saith the Apostle, if they abide even as I.  But if they have not continency, let them marry:  for it is better to marry than to burn 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9..  But let all the other practices be banished afar, fornication, adultery, and every kind of licentiousness:  and let the body be kept pure for the Lord, that the Lord also may have respect unto the body.  And let the body be nourished with food, that it may live, and serve without hindrance; not, however, that it may be given up to luxuries.