21), nor Christian teachers, nor church fathers (Matt.xxiii.

8-10), nor Christian armies, Christian law courts, nor Christian States.

This is what was always taught and believed by true Christians of the first and following centuries.

A Christian's ideal is not marriage, but love for God and for his neighbor.
Consequently in the eyes of a Christian relations in marriage not only do not constitute a lawful, right, and happy state, as our society and our churches maintain, but, on the contrary, are always a fall.
Such a thing as Christian marriage never was and never could be.

Christ did not marry, nor did he establish marriage; neither did his disciples marry.