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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 791 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/791/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 791. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/791/"
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# Summa Theologica, Second Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

Courage and temperance, the states of life, then Christ, the sacraments and the last things.

## 791. Supp. · Question 65: Of Plurality of Wives (five Articles)

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[¶0] OF PLURALITY OF WIVES (FIVE ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider the plurality of wives. Under this head there are five points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether it is against the natural law to have several wives?

[¶3] (2) Whether this was ever lawful?

[¶4] (3) Whether it is against the natural law to have a concubine?

[¶5] (4) Whether it is a mortal sin to have intercourse with a concubine?

[¶6] (5) Whether it was ever lawful to have a concubine?