{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We ask if we ought to marry; which is one of the points, which are\r\nsaid to be relative. For some must marry, and a man must be in some\r\ncondition, and he must marry some one in some condition. For every\r\none is not to marry, nor always. But there is a time in which it is\r\nsuitable, and a person for whom it is suitable, and an age up to\r\nwhich it is suitable. Neither ought every one to take a wife, nor\r\nis it every woman one is to take, nor always, nor in every way, nor\r\ninconsiderately. But only he who is in certain circumstances, and such\r\nan one and at such time as is requisite, and for the sake of children,\r\nand one who is in every respect similar, and who does not by force or\r\ncompulsion love the husband who loves her. Hence Abraham, regarding his\r\nwife as a sister, says, “She is my sister by my father, but not by my\r\nmother; and she became my wife,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_252\" id=\"FNanchor_252\">[252]</a> teaching us that children of the\r\nsame<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_79\">[79]</span> mothers ought not to enter into matrimony. Let us briefly follow\r\nthe history. Plato ranks marriage among outward good things, providing\r\nfor the perpetuity of our race, and handing down as a torch a certain\r\nperpetuity to children’s children. Democritus repudiates marriage and\r\nthe procreation of children, on account of the many annoyances thence\r\narising, and abstractions from more necessary things. Epicurus agrees,\r\nand those who place good in pleasure, and in the absence of trouble and\r\npain. According to the opinion of the Stoics, marriage and the rearing\r\nof children are a thing indifferent; and according to the Peripatetics,\r\na good. In a word, these, following out their dogmas in words, became\r\nenslaved to pleasures; some using concubines, some mistresses, and the\r\nmost youths. And that wise quaternion in the garden with a mistress,\r\nhonoured pleasure by their acts. Those, then, will not escape the curse\r\nof yoking an ass with an ox, who, judging certain things not to suit\r\nthem, command others to do them, or the reverse. This Scripture has\r\nbriefly showed, when it says, “What thou hatest, thou shalt not do to\r\nanother.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_253\" id=\"FNanchor_253\">[253]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XXIII. ON MARRIAGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_253","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-124"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d1bbfcb77648da6b72bef3fb795dbdea6eca6605b95d286948031c782ff13d3a","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_253","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":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_253","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_253\" id=\"Footnote_253\">[253]</a> Tob. iv. 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_253","text_sha256":"c92f45106db20fd40194295a602741421220c2351c809bf2e7cb16fc78ba3988","verified":false,"work_id":null}