Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 279

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279. (8) These appearances are simulations of conjugial love, which are commendable because they are useful and necessary. We call them simulations because they exist between partners who differ in mind, and who because of these differences are inwardly in a state of coldness. When the partners nevertheless in outward respects live a companionable life together as is fitting and proper, then their interrelations in living together may be called simulations, but conjugial simulations, which, being commendable because of the uses they serve, are altogether different from hypocritical ones; for by their means they provide for all those good ends which are enumerated in succession under headings (11) to (20) below. They are commendable as necessities, because otherwise those good ends would be cast aside; and yet their living together is enjoined by covenant and law, so that it is incumbent on them both as a duty.


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