Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Maccabees 9:27

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 25, footnote 4 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 726 (In-Text, Margin)

26. Let those also who marry but once not reprobate those who have consented to a second marriage[2 Maccabees 9:27]: for though continence is a noble and admirable thing, yet it is also permissible to enter upon a second marriage, that the weak may not fall into fornication. For it is good for them, saith the Apostle, if they abide even as I.  But if they have not continency, let them marry:  for it is better to marry than to burn. But let all the other practices be banished afar, fornication, adultery, and every kind of licentiousness: and let ...