Bonaventure

Because marriage has something attached which diminishes both honor and utility and spiritual joy, no one is compelled to it against his will, because rather one is persuaded to abstain from it or to be continent, both by the Lord and by the Apostle himself, 1 Corinthians 7: If her husband be dead, the woman is loosed from the law of her husband; let her marry whom she will, only in the Lord; but she shall be happier if she so remain, according to my counsel. …

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