Note 1047 — Chapter VIII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH DEVELOPS AND ADMINISTERS MATRIMONIAL LAW
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The early Fathers render the Greek μυστήριον by sacramentum, which is defined by St. Augustine as "the visible form of invisible grace," or "a sign of a sacred thing"; Encyc. Brit., XXI, 131. Cf. also Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 153, 154; Freisen, Geschichte des can. Eherechts, 29 ff.; Zhishman, Das Eherecht der orient. Kirche, 124 ff.; Oswald, Die dogmat. Lehre von den heil. Sakramenten, I, 25 ff.; Perrone, De mat. christ., I, 1-21; Schulte, Lehrbuch, 349; Richter, Lehrbuch, 1044, 1045; Thwing, The Family, 81; and the monograph of Baier, Die Naturehe in ihrem Verhältniss zur christlich-sakramentalen Ehe; Amat, Treatise on Matrimony, 3 ff.