Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter VI.--Other Opinions of the Philosophers.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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And regarding lawless conduct, those who have blindly wandered into the choir of philosophy have, almost to a man, spoken with one voice. Certainly Plato, to mention him first who seems to have been the most respectable philosopher among them, expressly, as it were, legislates in his first book, [642] entitled The Republic, that the wives of all be common, using the precedent of the son [643] of Jupiter and the lawgiver of the Cretans, in order that under this pretext there might be an abundant offspring from the best persons, and that those who were worn with toil might be comforted b…
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