[424] And yet a Protestant has said quite recently: “The Church persistently taught that love had nothing to do with marriage.” As though the restraining of sexual love within just limits was equivalent to the exclusion of conjugal love.
[425] Ed. Ph. Strauch, “Zeitschr. für deutsches Altertum,” 29, 1885, pp. 373-427.
[426] P. 385.
[427] Munich State Library, cod. germ., 757.
[428] Ibid., cod. 756.
[429] Heinemann, “Die Handschriften der Herzogl. Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel,” 2, 4, p. 332 f.
[430] “Überlieferungen zur Gesch.,” etc., 1, 2, p. 204 f.
[431] “N. kirchl. Zeitschr.,” 3, 1892, p. 487.
[432] “Sermones Fratris Barlete,” Brixie, 1497 and 1498, several times republished in the 16th century. See sermon for the Friday of the fourth week of Lent.
[433] “Opus super Sapientiam Salomonis,” ed. Hagenau, 1494 (and elsewhere), “Lectio” 43 and 44, on Marriage. Cp. ibid., 181, the “Lectio” on the Valiant Woman, and in his work, “In Proverbia Salomonis explanationes,” Paris, 1510, “Lectio” 91, with the explanation of Prov. xii. 4: “A diligent woman is a crown to her husband.”