Synodal Letter to Pope Siricius (389 AD):
42, 3
“They pretend to honor marriage; but what praise can be given marriage if there
is no glory in virginity? Neither do we deny that marriage has been sanctified by
Christ, since the divine word says: ‘The two shall become one flesh’ and one spirit.
But we are born before we are brought to our goal, and the mystery of the divine
operation is much more excellent than the remedy for human weakness. It is quite
right that a good wife be praised, but even better that a pious virgin be preferred.”
Hexameron (Post 389 AD):
6, 7, 40
“But let us consider the course of our own creation. He says: ‘Let Us make man to
our image and to our likeness.’ Who says this? Is it not God, who made you?...To
whom does He say it? Certainly not to Himself, for He does not say ‘Let Me make’
but ‘Let Us make.’ Nor to the Angels, for they are ministers; and servants can
have no partnership in the operation of the master, nor works with their author. It
is the Son to whom He speaks, even if the Jews will not have it and the Arians fight
against it...[And it is the Son] who is the image of God the Father, the Son who
always is and who was in the beginning.”
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