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St. Augustine

On The Good Of Widowhood

St. Augustine

Augustine's treatise addressing the spiritual value of widowhood and the choice not to remarry, presenting the widowed state as an opportunity for deeper devotion to God while respecting the goodness of marriage.

23 Chapters

Table of Contents

1 On the Good of Widowhood. 2 Section 2. Whereas, therefore, in every question, which relates to life and conduct 3 Section 3. Therefore thus saith the Apostle, the teacher of the Gentiles 4 Section 4. Lo, there is your good compared to that good 5 Section 5. Wherefore also when he was advising married persons not to defraud one another of 6 Section 6. Wherefore this in the first place you ought to know 7 Section 7. But whereas the Apostle, when commending the fruit of unmarried men and women 8 Section 8. Whence, also, what the Apostle Paul said of the unmarried woman 9 Section 9. Learn, therefore, that thy good, yea, rather, remember what thou hast learned 10 Section 10. Nor, because I called Ruth blessed, Anna more blessed 11 Section 11. But thou who both hast sons, and livest in that end of the world 12 Section 12. But since, as the Lord saith, |Not all receive this word 13 Section 13. Wherefore they who say that the marriages of such are not marriages 14 Section 14. Wherefore I cannot indeed say, of females who have fallen away from a better 15 Section 16. For that also is no foolish question which is wont to be proposed 16 Section 19. These discussions, therefore, concerning the different deserts of married women 17 Section 21. These things I am compelled to admonish by reason of certain little discourses of 18 Section 22. Now it has been my wish on this account to say something on this 19 Section 23. If, therefore, you had not as yet vowed unto God widowed continence 20 Section 24. Let the inner ear of the virgin also 21 Section 25. The past day returns not hereafter, and after yesterday proceeds to-day 22 Section 27. Indeed in all spiritual delights, which unmarried women enjoy 23 Section 28. Go on therefore in your course, and run with perseverance

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