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Article III: On The Properties Of Matrimony

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  1. Matrimony, "that it might respond more aptly to the most wise counsels of God, either from the beginning bore before itself chiefly two properties, and these especially noble, as though deeply impressed and engraved, namely unity and perpetuity."4 Concerning these two properties one must now treat.

(4) Const. Arcanum of Leo XIII; cf. Martin, de Matrim., P. I, n. 59-82.

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