De Conjugio (Chadwick) n. 79

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79. Adulteries in the Christian world

There are there many of noble family and the highest station, and not so many from the common people, because they have accepted as a principle that marriages are for the sake of offspring, so what does it matter whether they are defiled by others! They laugh at the sanctity of marriage, calling others simpletons. Such people were raised from the hells in large numbers and put into the state in which they were in the world. They asked where were there beautiful wives, and when shown rushed as if mad or frenzied, to try to enter their homes, but in their blind lust they were carried to a place where the ground gaped open, and the crowd fell down into a hell; this was behind the back.


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