Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume III/Moral Treatises of St. Augustin/Of Holy Virginity/Translator's Preface

Retr. ii. 23. “After I had written &#8216;on the Good of Marriage,&#8217; it was expected that I should write on Holy Virginity; and I did not delay to do so: and that it is God&#8217;s gift, and how great a gift, and with what humility to be guarded, so far as I was able I set forth in one volume. This book begins,” &amp;c.