I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Now, if in all cases he says it is best for a man thus to be; "Thou art joined to a wife seek not loosing "(that you may give no occasion to adultery); "thou art loosed from a wife, seek not a wife "that you may reserve an opportunity for yourself: "but withal, if thou shalt have married a wife, and if a virgin shall have married, she sinneth not; pressure, however, of the flesh such shall have"-even here he is granting a permission by way of "sparing them."
