Last Judgment (Post) (Rogers) n. 85

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85. [85.] As I was being led around by the Lord through various localities in order for me to learn what the people were like from their own particular nation there, I came also to two mountains inhabited by Muslims. On one dwelled people who lived morally and well. They said that their goodness was due to the fact that they obeyed their officials. On the other mountain dwelled people who were quite perceptive in spiritual matters. They told me to begin with that no others can come to them but those who are of a similar character. Thus Christians cannot come, they said, and if they do, it seems to them as though they are being swallowed up by wolves. Moreover, if any continue to approach, they put them into prisons and treat them badly, and afterward send them away. There are monks who are able to insinuate themselves by craft and art, but they are detected. I spoke with these Muslims about their having several wives, and they listened to the reasons why it is according to Christian doctrine that a man should have only one wife. They perceived the justice in these reasons, but replied that they are still not able to give up matrimony with several, since it was granted to them by their religion in the world, and this because they are orientals, who, if not allowed more than one wife, would have erupted into adulterous affairs and so perished.


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