Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
As being Himself, withal, a virgin; to whom looking, the apostle also-himself too for this reason abstinent-gives the preference to continence.
The very phases themselves of this (inexperience) are intelligible from (the apostle's) rescripts, when he says:.
And with what an axe of censorship he lops, and eradicates, and extirpates, every forest of lusts, for fear of permitting aught to regain strength and sprout again; behold him desiring souls to keep a fast from the legitimate fruit of nature-the apple, I mean, of marriage: "But with regard to what ye wrote, good it is for a man to have no contact with a woman; but, on account of fornication, let each one have his own wife: let husband to wife, and wife to husband, render what is due."
