Introduction — Clark, New Questions, Old Answers
Dedication
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Dedicated to the Holy Patriarch Abraham, Friend of God, Master of Chastity, Father of Israel, and Ancestor of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The print carries a reproduction of *Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar* (1897), unknown artist. (ed.)
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“But let him say, I indeed am not better than Abraham, but the chastity of the unmarried is better than the chastity of marriage; whereof Abraham had one in use, both in habit.” —St. Augustine, On the Good of Marriage, 27 (trans. C. L. Cornish, 1887)