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Tertullian also built a direct assault on the polygamous apply of some cults in his work Adversus Hermogenem. Tertullian explicitly tackled the objection that polygamy was authorized for the patriarchs. Norwegian Bishop Øystein Erlendsson (ca. 1120-1188) declared that concubines have been not allowed to accept the sacraments unless they married, and adult men were being compelled to promise relationship to females they had lain with outdoors of wedlock. At the stop of each individual quarter their income shall be divided into equivalent parts by the number of days on which, for the duration of that quarter, their respective courts sat, or should really have sat, and a single of these portions shall be withheld from each individual member for just about every of the claimed times, which, without having result in authorized good by his court docket, he failed to go to, or departed ahead of adjournment without their leave. Have ye not read through, that he which designed them at the commencing designed them male and female, And said, For this bring about shall a gentleman depart father and mother, and shall cleave to his spouse: and they twain shall be just one flesh? Sirs, the Lacedaemonians are in possession of the citadel but that is no result in for despondency, since, as they assure us, they have no hostile intention, besides, indeed, in the direction of any a person who has an urge for food for war.