{"id":5622,"date":"2022-05-23T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:25:25","slug":"%e5%8f%a4%e4%bb%a3%e7%bd%97%e9%a9%ac%e7%9a%84%e5%a9%9a%e5%88%b6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2022\/05\/%e5%8f%a4%e4%bb%a3%e7%bd%97%e9%a9%ac%e7%9a%84%e5%a9%9a%e5%88%b6\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Roman Marriage System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ancient Greco-Roman marriage was strictly monogamous. Romans traditionally believed that the purpose of marriage was to produce legitimate children, allowing citizens to produce new citizens. The legal age for marriage was 12 for girls and 14 for boys, with most Roman women marrying in their late teens or early twenties. Wives were relatively financially independent, and society encouraged widows and divorced women to remarry. Widows could inherit their husband&#8217;s property, which meant that while poor widows were very poor, rich widows were extremely wealthy. Some women who married multiple times accumulated huge fortunes and were sought after by many men. Therefore, most ordinary widows were &#8220;widows indeed&#8221; (1 Timothy 5:3), but some were &#8220;widows who live for pleasure&#8221; (1 Timothy 5:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"993\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-2.png 993w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-2-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-2-768x319.png 768w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-2-18x7.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 993px) 100vw, 993px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Above: A relief of an ancient Roman wedding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-3.png 1002w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/\u53e4\u4ee3\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-3-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Above\uff1aMarcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95\u201346 BCE), known as Cato the Younger, was a statesman and orator of the Roman Republic. He was depicted as the guardian of Mount Purgatory in Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy. He divorced his wife, Marcia, who then remarried his 60-year-old friend, Quintus Hortensius. Six years later, Marcia inherited Hortensius&#8217;s property as a widow and returned to Cato, and the two became extremely wealthy.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Greco-Roman marriage was strictly monogamous. Romans traditionally believed that the purpose of marriage was to produce legitimate children, allowing citizens to produce new citizens. The legal age for marriage was 12 for girls and 14 for boys, with most Roman women marrying in their late teens or early twenties. 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