6/2/2023 0 Comments Five wives joan thomas![]() ![]() Now nature has not taught all animals that one male should be united to but one female, since with many animals the one male is united to several females. ![]() Further, "Natural right is that which nature has taught all animals," as stated at the beginning of the Digests (1, i, ff. Therefore It is not against the natural law to have several wives. But one man may get children of several women, by causing them to be pregnant. Further, marriage is chiefly directed to the begetting of offspring. ![]() Dei xv, 38) that "it was not contrary to a commandment" to have several wives, "because by no law was it forbidden." Therefore it is not against the natural law to have several wives. Further, whoever acts in opposition to the natural law, disobeys a commandment, for the law of nature has its commandments even as the written law has. Therefore it is not contrary to the natural law to have several wives. But "it was not a sin" to have several wives "when this was the custom," according to Augustine (De Bono Conjug. For custom does not prejudice the law of nature. It would seem that it is not against the natural law to have several wives. Whether it is against the natural law to have several wives? Was it ever lawful to have a concubine?Īrticle 1.Is it a mortal sin to have intercourse with a concubine?.Is it against the natural law to have a concubine?.Is it against the natural law to have several wives?. ![]()
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