Note 1037 — Chapter VIII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH DEVELOPS AND ADMINISTERS MATRIMONIAL LAW
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Citing Augustine, Serm. ix, li, Op., tom. v, pp. 88, 345, ed. Migne. Augustine's view is that of the earlier Fathers; see the references in n. 2, p. 325, above, to which many more might be added. Cf. Esmein, Le mariage en droit canonique, I, 83-87; Theiner, Die Einführung der erz. Ehelosigkeit, I, 23 ff. (teachings of the "heretical sects"), 81 (teachings of the "Fathers"); Recherches phil. et hist. sur le célibat, 177 ff. (doctrines of the early "heretics").