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Instytucja małżeństwa w pismach okresu poapostolskiego i apologetów II w

2017

The research aim of the article is to determine the legal rules related to marriage in the earliest writings of the primary Christianity, that is dated to the post-apostolic period and to the activities of the apologists of the IIth century. The research query indicated that the writers of the post-apostolic period put more emphasis on maintaining by the spouses harmonious relationships between each other, preserving evangelical recommendations and gaining moral virtues. In turn, the writings of later generations, especially apologists, contain observations of a legal nature and lay down rules that have the character of permanent tendencies, which became the basis for legal regulations at l…