1 Corinthians 7:39

Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fourth

And I said, "If a wife or husband die, and the widower or widow marry, does he or she commit sin? "There is no sin in marrying again," said he; "but if they remain unmarried, they gain greater honour and glory with the Lord; but if they marry, they do not sin.[15]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Et rursus: "Mulletest alligata, quandiu vivit vir ejus; sin autem mortuus fuerit, libera est ut nubat, modo in Domino. Beata est autem si sic permanserit, mea quidem sententia."[135]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Sed in priore quidem particula, "mortificati estis," inquit, "legi," non matrimonio, "ut efficiamini vos alteri, qui excitatus est ex mortuis,"[136]

Tertullian De Corona

You have the law from the patriarchs indeed; you have the apostle enjoining people to marry in the Lord.[56]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

You degrade your god, O Marcion, when you make him circumscribed at all by the Creator's time. Assuredly also, when (the apostle) rules that marriage should be "only in the Lord,"[314]

Tertullian Of Patience

Further, if we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (we find that)it is she who is entrusted by holiness with the care of continence of the flesh: she keeps the widow,[145]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

Let us now turn our attention to the next best advice, in regard of human infirmity; admonished hereto by the examples of certain, who, when an opportunity for the practice of Continence has been offered them, by divorce, or by the decease of the husband, have not only thrown away the opportunity of attaining so great a good, but not even in their remarriage have chosen to be mindful of the rule that "above all[1]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

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Tertullian To His Wife Book II

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Tertullian On Monogamy

Again, the woman, if intending to marry, has to marry "in the Lord; "[52]

Tertullian On Monogamy

You ought to take more pains to please him for whose sake you have not preferred to please God! Such (conduct) the Psychics will have it the apostle approved, or else totally failed to think about, when he wrote: "The woman is bound for such length of time as her husband liveth; but if he shall have died, she is free; whom she will let her marry, only in the Lord."[87]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "The woman is bound so long as her husband liveth; but if he die, she is freed to marry whom she will, only in the Lord. But she will be happier if she abide thus."[700]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

And he who wishes to interpret these things figuratively will say that, just as it was said byPaul confident in the grace which he had, "A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth,but if the husband be dead she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord; but she ishappier if she abide as she is, after my judgment, and I think that I also have the Spirit ofGod"[153]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

But this also, "A wife is bound for so long timeas her husband liveth, but if her husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will, onlyin the Lord,"[189]