celibacy, Britannica Kids „A voluntary refusal to marry or engage in sexual intercourse, celibacy is often associated with taking religious vows. The three types of religious celibacy are sacerdotal, monastic, and institutional.”
celibacy (amerikai angol nyelven). Britannica Kids. (Hozzáférés: 2022. március 21.)
Haydock-bibliamagyarázat "But others, as S. Augustine, understand it of persons who have lived in continency."
Haydock-bibliamagyarázat Ver. 3. They sung as it were a new canticle. In these visions, after persecutions, are sometimes introduced rejoicings to encourage the servants of God in their sufferings from the wicked world. — No man could say (or sing) the canticle, but those hundred and forty-four thousand: by which are signified the elect, who were not defiled with women. Some expound this literally of those who always lived virgins; others understand all those who lived or died with a pure and clean heart, exempt from the corruption of vices, and of whom it is said, (v. 5) that in their mouth was found no lie, and that they were without spot for the throne of God. Wi.
Cholij, Roman: Priestly Celibacy in Patristics and in the History of the Church. Vatican, 1993 A priest who is married at time of ordination continues to be married, with full obligation to all expectations of the marriage, but cannot remarry and remain in the practice of the priesthood.
