The sources of De Monogamia

1. 1 Corinthians Paul 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 3 passages

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   The passage extensively quotes and interprets Pauline teaching on marriage and continence, consistent with 1 Corinthians 7 and 9

   For if he were disputing about marriages, as he does in what follows—where the apostle could rather have named some example—he would rightly seem to say, "Have we not power to lead about wives, as the rest of the apostles, and Cephas?

2. Epistle to the Ephesians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly attributed to the apostle writing to the Ephesians

   " The apostle too, writing to the Ephesians, says that God proposed in himself, for the dispensation of the fulfilment of the times, to gather up again all things in Christ to the head, that is, to the beginning, both the things that are above the heavens and those upon the earth, in him.

3. Epistle to the Galatians Paul 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   de monogamia 2 passages anchored here

   Paul's letter to the Galatians is invoked both for the flesh/Spirit opposition and for the Abraham allegory

   "The flesh," he says, "lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.

4. First Epistle to Timothy Paul the Apostle 1 extended 1 citation

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   The passage explicitly states 'writing to Timothy too, he wishes the younger women to marry.'

   But writing to Timothy too, he wishes the younger women to marry, to bear children, to act as mothers of families.

5. Genesis Moses (traditional attribution) 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   de monogamia 2 passages anchored here

   Genesis creation and flood narratives are directly quoted and referenced as founding authority

   for if it was so done from the beginning, we find ourselves directed by Christ to the beginning—as, in the question of divorce, when he says that it was permitted by Moses on account of their hardness, but from the beginning it was not so, he without doubt recalls to the beginning the indivisibility of marriage.

6. Gospel of John unattributed (Gospel tradition) 1 authority 1 citation

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   The quoted saying about the Spirit leading into all truth is drawn from the Johannine farewell discourse

   when the Holy Spirit comes, he will lead you into all truth," he sufficiently signified that the Spirit would bring forward such things as might both be reckoned new, as never published before, and at some time burdensome, as being for that reason not yet published.

7. Leviticus Moses (traditional attribution) 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named as 'Leviticus' with direct quotation of its provision

   And since in Leviticus too it is provided, "Whoever shall take his brother's wife, it is uncleanness, it is shame, he shall die without children," without doubt, while he is forbidden to marry anew, she also is forbidden, having none to marry but a brother.

8. Romans Paul the Apostle 1 extended 1 citation

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   The passage explicitly says 'We read him also writing to the Romans' before quoting Romans 7.

   " Therefore, if he bids us be made dead to the law through the body of Christ, which is the Church, which consists in the spirit of newness, not in the letter of oldness, that is, of the law—taking you away from the law, which does not hold a wife to a deceased husband so as to keep her from being made another man's, he brings you back to the contrary condition:

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

de monogamia 15 sources

1 Corinthians (on offenses against the body) · 1 Corinthians (on the natural and spiritual) · Ecclesiastes · Epistle to the Ephesians (on the great mystery) · Gospel narrative (Christ's teaching on divorce) · Gospel narrative (birth and calling of the apostles) · Gospel narrative (resurrection teaching) · Gospel teaching on marriage from the beginning (Matthew/Mark tradition) · Julian laws · Law concerning priests' daughters and burial · Law of Moses (Deuteronomy, levirate marriage) · Mosaic Law on divorce · Roman priestly customs (Pontifex Maximus, Flaminica, priests of Ceres, Vestals, priestesses of Juno, Diana, Apollo) · Sayings of Christ on the willing spirit and weak flesh · Scantinian law