Show paul on am marriage 1 in reading what hat paul says about marriage we must remember two things marriage in that age wag as very different from marrage marriage in ours there was no religious ceremony and no enduring bond under the roman empire in lit the first century the nun man anh woman entered into partnership lived together as long as both of them liked to live together thou separated the bond could he be dissolved at the pl pleasure aas of either one how flow readily it was dissolved is illustrated by an instance related by st jerome who tells us that in his time there existed a nife who was married to her twenty third husband she beret it being his twenty first wife when therefore paul raul talks about marriage age he talks about the advisability of a woman a entering into such a commercial and easily dissoluble relationship with some man something very different from anar marriage in a 1 I community formed under the influence of an A glo saxon and christian teaching we must remember tc that paul when he wrote rote this letter to the cor cur nth lans believed the world was matt soon to como come to an end that there as great distress and many persecutions that the perils of tho the church we e illel to grow grov greater rather than lesa les and thit wit thus the condition of 0 the t mea mes rendered marriage especially especial tr to th tho christian ent his ills advice which Is on the whole hole against marriage marage rl age rather than in ia aar or of it Is such as a puritan might have given in the times ot of charles the t k arst or a hugu enot in the time of catherine de medici ills judgment in faor favor of virginity Is based on the fact of the present dis distress tres dr lyman abbott |