Second marriage
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
remarriage · second marriage · bigamy · digamy · repeated marriage
in the texts
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
Remarriage after the death of a spouse, the central practice under critique throughout the treatise, examined as indulgence, likened to fornication, and shown to create divided devotion.
and since to please by beauty and adornment is a device of carnal concupiscence, which is also the cause of fornication — does not second marriage seem to you to be akin to fornication, since the things are found in it which suit with fornication?
Therefore second marriage, if it is of that will of God which is called indulgence, we shall deny to be a pure will, of which indulgence is the cause;
For the blush is doubled, because in second marriage two wives stand about the same husband, one in spirit, the other in flesh.
De Monogamia
The practice of marrying again after the death of a spouse, the central doctrinal problem of the passage.
What heresy, if we judge second marriages, as unlawful, next door to adultery?
For if Christ took away what Moses enjoined, because "from the beginning it was not so"—and yet Christ is not for that reason to be reckoned to have come from another power—why should not the Paraclete too take away what Paul indulged, because a second marriage too was not from the beginning, nor should he for that reason be held suspect, as a foreign spirit, provided only that what is superinduce …
" For from this little chapter they defend the licence of a second marriage—nay, even of many marriages, if of a second;