Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Idem autem ilia quoque scribit: "Alligatus es uxori? ne quaeras solutionem. Solutus es ab uxore? ne quaeras uxorem."[69] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V and advises the continuance therein rather than the dissolution there of.[308] Tertullian To His Wife Book I restore what God has put an end to? Why do you, by repeating the servitude of matrimony, spurn the liberty which is offered you? "You have been bound to a wife,"[76] sap the apostle; "seek not loosing. You have been loosed from a wife;[77] Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity However, touching second marriage, we know plainly that the apostle has pronounced: "Thou t been loosed from a wife; seek not a wife. But if thou shalt marry, thou wilt not sin."[19]