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Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772

"The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love"

474. Those who, from causes legitimate, just, and really
excusatory, are engaged in this concubinage, may at the same time be
principled in conjugial love, n. 475. While this concubinage continues,
actual connection with a wife is not allowable, n. 476.
ON ADULTERIES AND THEIR GENERA AND DEGREES, n. 478-499.
There are three genera of adulteries,--simple, duplicate, and
triplicate, n. 479. Simple adultery is that of an unmarried man with
another's wife, or of an unmarried woman with another's husband, n. 480,
481. Duplicate adultery is that of a husband with another's wife, or of
a wife with another's husband, n. 482, 483. Triplicate adultery is with
relations by blood, n. 484. There are four degrees of adulteries,
according to which they have their predications, their charges of blame,
and after death their imputation, n. 485. Adulteries of the first degree
are adulteries of ignorance, which are committed by those who cannot as
yet, or cannot at all, consult the understanding, and thence check them,
n. 486. In such cases adulteries are mild, n. 487. Adulteries of the
second degree are adulteries of lust, which are committed by those who
indeed are able to consult the understanding, but from accidental causes
at the moment are not able, n.


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