The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Et rursus: "Mulletest alligata, quandiu vivit vir ejus; sin autem mortuus fuerit, libera est ut nub at, modo in Domino. Beata est autem si sic permanserit, mea quidem sententia.".
Sed in priore quidem particula, "mortificati estis "inquit, "legi "non matrimonio, "ut efficiamini vos alteri, qui excitatus est ex mortuis"