Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 346

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346. (11) Conjugial chastity, purity and sanctity are not possible with polygamists. This follows from which we have established just above, and clearly from the considerations demonstrated in the chapter titled "Chastity and its Absence;" especially from the following points there, that chastity, purity and sanctity are ascribed only to monogamous marriages, or to marriages of one man with one wife (no. 141); further, that truly conjugial love is the essence of chastity, and that all the delights of truly conjugial love, even the end delights, are chaste (nos. 143, 144). It follows clearly, moreover, from the considerations presented in the chapter titled "Truly Conjugial Love;" as from these points there, that from its origin and correspondence, truly conjugial love - which is the love of one man with one wife - is celestial, spiritual, holy, pure and clean, more so than any other love (nos. 64ff). Now, because chastity, purity and sanctity are present only in truly conjugial love, it follows that they are not present and cannot possibly be present in polygamous love.


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