V) "that in our sins and vices we accuse the nature of the flesh to the injury of the Creator, for in its own kind and degree the flesh is good." [55] St.Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, lib.

xiv, cap.

XXIII-XXVI.
Chrysostom and Gregory, of Nyssa, thought that in Paradise human beings would have multiplied by special creation, but such is not the accepted Catholic doctrine.
[56] W.Capitaine, _Die Moral des Clemens von Alexandrien_, pp.

112 et seq.

Without the body, Tertullian declared, there could be no virginity and no salvation.