{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But we, for our part, have no manner of doubt that to increase\r\nand multiply and replenish the earth in virtue of the\r\nblessing of God, is a gift of marriage as God instituted it\r\nfrom the beginning before man sinned, when He created them\r\nmale and female,—in other words, two sexes manifestly distinct.\r\nAnd it was this work of God on which His blessing\r\nwas pronounced. For no sooner had Scripture said, \"Male\r\nand female created He them,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_115_115\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_115_115\">[115]</a> than it immediately continues,\r\n\"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Increase,\r\nand multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it,\" etc.\r\nAnd though all these things may not unsuitably be interpreted\r\nin a spiritual sense, yet \"male and female\" cannot be\r\nunderstood of two things in one man, as if there were in him\r\none thing which rules, another which is ruled; but it is quite\r\nclear that they were created male and female, with bodies of\r\ndifferent sexes, for the very purpose of begetting offspring, and\r\nso increasing, multiplying, and replenishing the earth; and it\r\nis great folly to oppose so plain a fact. It was not of the\r\nspirit which commands and the body which obeys, nor of the\r\nrational soul which rules and the irrational desire which is\r\nruled, nor of the contemplative virtue which is supreme and\r\nthe active which is subject, nor of the understanding of the\r\nmind and the sense of the body, but plainly of the matrimonial\r\nunion by which the sexes are mutually bound together,\r\nthat our Lord, when asked whether it were lawful for any\r\ncause to put away one's wife (for on account of the hardness\r\nof the hearts of the Israelites Moses permitted a bill of\r\ndivorcement to be given), answered and said, \"Have ye not\r\nread that He which made them at the beginning made them\r\nmale and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave\r\nfather and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they\r\ntwain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain,\r\nbut one flesh. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let\r\nnot man put asunder.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_116_116\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_116_116\">[116]</a> It is certain, then, that from the\r\nfirst men were created, as we see and know them to be now,\r\nof two sexes, male and female, and that they are called one,\r\neither on account of the matrimonial union, or on account of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_39\">[Pg 39]</a></span>\r\nthe origin of the woman, who was created from the side of the\r\nman. And it is by this original example, which God Himself\r\ninstituted, that the apostle admonishes all husbands to love\r\ntheir own wives in particular.<a id=\"FNanchor_117_117\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_117_117\">[117]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-78"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1855e3246f9f443f4f2c4ff47b3ca0bc24d63475aa3321bc68611dac3d4198e3","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xix. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_116_116","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_116_116","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_116_116\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_116_116\"><span class=\"label\">[116]</span></a> Matt. xix. 4, 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_116_116","text_sha256":"4d2f67d8a7e44dfe5f978a47576f8d3d19d114048cf3b2b9022ce91193593163","verified":false,"work_id":null}