338. (5) That is why it is not lawful for a Christian to have more than one wife. This follows as already established from what we have demonstrated in the preceding discussions. It need only be added here that a genuine conjugial inclination has been more deeply impressed on the minds of Christians than on the minds of gentiles who have embraced polygamy. The minds of Christians are therefore more receptive of that love than the minds of polygamists. For in Christians this conjugial inclination has been engraved on the inner elements of the mind from their acknowledging the Lord and His Divinity, and on the outer elements of the mind by their civil laws.