Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 28:24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 30, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 477 (In-Text, Margin)

20. I praise wedlock, I praise marriage, but it is because they give me virgins. I gather the rose from the thorns, the gold from the earth, the pearl from the shell. “Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?”[Isaiah 28:24] Shall he not also enjoy the fruit of his labor? Wedlock is the more honored, the more what is born of it is loved. Why, mother, do you grudge your daughter her virginity? She has been reared on your milk, she has come from your womb, she has grown up in your bosom. Your watchful affection has kept her a virgin. Are you angry with her because she chooses to be a king’s wife and not a soldier’s? ...