Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "Nor," as Paul says, "is it meet to make the members of Christ the members of an harlot; nor must the temple of God be made the temple of base affections."[212]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

does not permit "the members of Christ to be joined to a harlot."[1341]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

In the body will He raise us, because the body is for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And suitably does he add the question: "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? "[302]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

he makes our bodies "the members of Christ; "[79]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

less commingles "the members of Christ" with the members of an adulteress.[27]

Tertullian On Modesty "Taking away the members of Christ, shall I make (them) members of an harlot? Know ye not, that whoever is agglutinated to an harlot is made one body? (for the two shall be (made) into one flesh): but whoever is agglutinated to the Lord is one spirit? Flee fornication."[172]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Or know ye not that he who is joined together with an harlot is one body? for two shall be in one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit."[701]

Pseudo-Cyprian Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity

Hence also he says the same thing: "That the members of Christ must not be joined with the members of an harlot."[10]

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