“But in what respect can there be in marriage anything contrary to God’s will?”

“I might forget the Iliad , which you and I read together, but you who live amid poets and sages cannot forget it. What is the whole Iliad ? It is a story of violations of the will of God in relation to marriage. Menelaus and Paris and Helen and Achilles and Agamemnon and Chreseis⁠—it is all a description of the terrible tribulations that have ensued and are all the time coming from this violation.”

“In what consists this violation?”