Chapter 35.—Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles. 77.  Meanwhile, why do you rage? why does party spirit blind your eyes?  Why do you entangle yourselves in a long defence of such great error?  Seek for fruit in the field, seek for wheat in the floor:  they will be found easily, and will present themselves to the inquirer.  Why do you look so exclusively at the dross?  Why do you use the roughness of the hedge to scare away the inexperienced from the fatness of the garden?  There is a proper entrance, though known to but a few; and by it men come in, though you disbelieve it, or do not wish to find it.  In the Catholic Church there are believers without number who do not use the world, and there are those who "use it," in the words of the apostle, "as not using it,"155 as was proved in those times when Christians were forced to worship idols.  For then, how many wealthy men, how many peasant householders, how many merchants, how many military men, how many leading men in their own cities, and how many senators, people of both sexes, giving up all these empty and transitory things, though while they used them they were not bound down by them, endured death for the salutary faith and religion, and proved to unbelievers that instead of being possessed by all these things they really possessed them? 78.  Why do you reproach us by saying that men renewed in baptism ought no longer to beget children, or to possess fields, and houses, and money?  Paul allows it.  For, as cannot be denied, he wrote to believers, after recounting many kinds of evil-doers who shall not possess the kingdom of God:  "And such were you," he says:  "but ye are washed, but ye are 63 sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."  By the washed and sanctified, no one, assuredly, will venture to think any are meant but believers, and those who have renounced this world.  But, after showing to whom he writes, let us see whether he allows these things to them.  He goes on:  "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient:  all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.  Meat for the belly, and the belly for meats:  but God will destroy both it and them.  Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.  But God raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by His own power.  Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?  God forbid.  Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is made one body? for the twain, saith He, shall be one flesh.  But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.  Flee fornication.  Whatever sin a man doeth is without the body:  but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.  Know ye not that your members are the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a great price:  glorify God, and carry Him in your body."156  "But of the things concerning which ye wrote to me:  it is good for a man 155 1 Cor. vii. 31. 156 1 Cor. vi. 11-20. Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles. 109 Marriage and Property Allowed to the Baptized by the Apostles.