A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

by George Elliott Howard

[946] Ignatius, Epistle to Polycarp, IV: Ante-Nicene Fathers, I, 95.

[947] Tertullian, On Monogamy, xi: Ante-Nicene Fathers, IV, 67.

[948] Tertullian, On Modesty, v: Ante-Nicene Fathers, IV, 77. Cf. Meyrick, art. "Marriage," in Dict. Christ. Antiq., II, 1106, who thinks, aside from the religious motive, members might thus avoid the violation of laws of the state with which they were unacquainted.

[949] Ludlow, on "Benediction," in Dict. Christ. Antiq., I, 193; cf. the reading in Ante-Nicene Fathers, IV, 48.

[950] Ludlow, loc. cit.

[951] Ambrose, Book IX, ep. 70; Ludlow, loc. cit.

[952] Ludlow, ibid.; Selden, Uxor ebraica, Lib. II, cc. xxiv, xxv.

[953] Ludlow, op. cit., I, 194.

[954] In both East and West, between the sixth and seventh centuries: Ludlow, ibid.

[955] Tertullian, On Idolatry, xvi: Ante-Nicene Fathers, III, 71. Cf. Ludlow, on "Betrothal," op. cit., I, 203.