Note 1236 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
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Luther, however, was more tolerant, refusing to accept difference of religion as a proper hindrance to marriage: see the passages collected by Strampff, 282, 283. On the other hand, Melanchthon, "De conjugio," Opera, I, pars ii, 235, 236, disapproved of such unions. Compare Erasmus, De mat. christ., 108, 109. The law was gradually relaxed, especially in favor of intermarriage with Jews, and it is now abrogated under the imperial legislation: Richter, Lehrbuch, 1110, 1111; Scheurl, Das gemeine deutsche Eherecht, 218, 219; idem, Kirchenrecht. Abhandlungen, 521; Friedberg and Wasserschleben, "Zwei Gutachten," ZKG., IX.