 | Edward Gibbon - 1783 - 524 sider
...53. . Since defire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was confiftent with the fame principles to confider a ftate of celibacy as the neareft approach to the Divine perfection. It was with the utmoft difficulty that ancient Rome could fupport the inftitution of fix... | |
 | Theophilus Evans - 1834 - 318 sider
...purity, were soon exclu. ded from the henours, and even from the alms, of the church. Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | 1851 - 372 sider
...purity, were soon excluded from the honours, and even from the alms, of the church. § Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, • Tertullian, de Spectaculis, c. 23. Clemens Alexandra. Ptedagog., 1. Hi., c. 8. f Beansobre, Hist.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 sider
...Christian purity were soon excluded from the honours, and even from the arms, of the church.93 Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | 1880 - 470 sider
...this opinion (p. 181, note 91). Still following his guidance, he proceeds to say:— " Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 sider
...opinion. purity were soon excluded from the honours, and even from the alms, of the church.84 Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sider
...Christian purity were soon excluded from the honors, and even from the alms, of the church.83 Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 sider
...Christian purity were soon excluded from the honours, and even from the alms, of the church.93 Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 524 sider
...Christian purity, were soon excluded from the honours, and even from the alms, of the church. Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
 | Moran M. Judson - 2004 - 454 sider
..."unwilling to improve an institution (marriage) which they were compelled to tolerate... since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the... | |
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Since desire was imputed as a crime, and marriage was tolerated as a defect, it was consistent with the same principles to consider a state of celibacy as the nearest approach to the divine perfection. 
