338. (v) This is the reason why a Christian is not allowed to marry more than one wife.
This follows as confirmed by the proving of the preceding propositions, but a further point must be added. The true conjugial principle is more deeply imprinted on the minds of Christians than on those of the heathen who have embraced polygamy. As a result, the minds of Christians are more susceptible than those of polygamists to that love. For Christians have that conjugial principle imprinted on the interior of their minds, because they acknowledge the Lord and His Divinity, and on the exterior of their minds by the civil code of law.