XIX: marriage; paradise prepared for the first pair
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XIX.MARRIAGE is the covenant by which male and female are joined into one society of life for mutual help, the generation and education of offspring, and the conservation of chastity.Concerning the marriage of Adam and Eve see Zanchi on the works of God and others.
That garden of paradise was so prepared that it was most conveniently inhabited by the first parents: a pleasant place, distinguished by the trees of life and of the knowledge of good and evil, irrigated by rivers.Yet it is to be held that paradise did not lie open so widely as the whole world, nor is it to be sought everywhere by the allegorical deliriums of the Origenists.All those views are to be rejected which either invent paradise as merely allegorical or place it outside this earth against Moses' historical narration in Genesis 2:8–15.
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XIX. CONJUGIUM est foedus quo mas et femina in unam societatem vitae junguntur ad mutuum adjutorium, sobolis generationem et educationem, et castitatis conservationem. De conjugio Adami et Evae vide Zanchium de operibus Dei et alios. Hortus ille paradisi sic fuit paratus ut commodissime primis parentibus habitaretur: locus amoenus, arboribus vitae et scientiae boni et mali distinctus, fluviis irrigatus. Quod tamen paradisus non tam late patuerit quam totus orbis, nec sit ubique quaerendus allegoricis deliriumibus Origenistarum, tenendum est. Rejicienda sunt omnia illa quae paradisum aut mere allegoricum fingunt aut extra hanc terram collocant contra Mosis narrationem historicam Gen. II.8–15.