Note 8 — Chapter XVI · THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND HEATHENISM.
George Eliot translation
“Perfectum autem esse nolle delinquere est.”—Hieronymus (Epist. ad Heliodorum de laude Vitæ solit.). Let me observe once for all that I interpret the biblical passages concerning marriage in the sense in which they have been interpreted by the history of Christianity. ↑