You must not speak to me of the violence of a ravisher, a mother's pleading, a father's bidding, the influence of relatives, the insolence and the intrigues of servants, household losses. The apostle does not promulgate this decree on his own authority but on that of Christ who speaks in him. Whether she has put away her husband or her husband her, the man who marries her is still an adulterer. What I am about to say may sound novel but after all it is not new but old for it is supported by the witness of the old testament. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Diseased flesh calls for the knife and the searing-iron.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. I am surprised that you have resolved to question me about this passage when that reverend man, Hilary, bishop of Poictiers, has occupied the eleventh book of his treatise against the Arians with a full examination and explanation of it. Yet I may at least say a few words.