So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.
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Shepherd of Hermas
AD 150
""Why, then, sir "I said, "do all these trees bear fruit, and some of them fairer than the rest? ""Listen "he said: "all who once suffered for the name of the Lord are honourable before God; and of all these the sins were remitted, because they suffered for the name of the Son of God.