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Marriage and intercourse

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Often appears with: state of innocence · marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · concupiscence and reason · augustine quotations · anger, revenge, and forgiveness

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“This is what Augustine means by the words quoted, which do not exclude intensity of pleasure from the state of innocence, but ardor of desire and restlessness of the mind.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) · insight

Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) secondary

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint · c. 1265–1274
PART I ("Prima Pars") > Act; in treating of which subject Boethius employs that phrase (De (167/290)

Aquinas replies that, despite sin and ejection from paradise, intercourse and desire in innocence would have been governed by reason rather than lust, so fecundity would occur without inordinate longing.

spirituality of mind, yet with an animal life in his body. After the resurrection man will be like an angel, spiritualized in soul and body. Wherefore there is no parallel. Reply Obj. 2: As Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. ix, 4), our first parents did not come together in paradise, because on account of sin they were ejected from paradise shortly after the creation of the woman; or because, having received the general …