marriage
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- _kg_layer
- 0
- conflict_with
- love of wisdom, continence
- description
- A central theme for the narrator, representing both a desired social state (with a wife and money) and a source of conflict with his spiritual aspirations and friendships.
- divine_sanction
- Thy law prescribes
- narrator_perspective
- desired for social standing and procreation
- purpose
- formest the offspring
- social_expectation
- health-giving baptism
Relationships
- referenced_byGod's Law
- context
- prescribes
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- as Thy law prescribes, O Lord
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:27.623Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- referenced_byAlypius
- context
- advises_against
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- Alypius indeed kept me from marrying; alleging that so could we by no means with undistracted leisure live together in the love of wisdom, as we had long desired.
- referenced_byNarrator's Mother
- context
- desires
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk
- source_text
- I wooed, I was promised, chiefly through my mother's pains, that so once married, the health-giving baptism might cleanse me, towards which she rejoiced that I was being daily fitted
- extracted_fromSource
- extracted_at
- 2026-03-02T21:55:47.617Z
- source
- Sourcetext_chunk