A exortação aos maridos
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Do mesmo modo, vós, maridos, coabitai com elas, tratando-as com honra, como a vasos mais fracos, e herdeiras convosco da graça da vida... Em seguida, fez sinal aos anjos, e eles entoaram um trecho do Cântico, tão concertadamente, que desmentiriam a hipótese do tenor italiano, se a execução fosse na Terra; mas era no Céu.
In the same manner, you husbands, cohabit with them, treating them with honor, as weaker vessels, and heirs with you of the grace of life... Then, he made a sign to the angels, and they intoned a passage of the Canticle, so harmoniously that they would disprove the hypothesis of the Italian tenor, if the execution were on Earth; but it was in Heaven.
The narrator describes a biblical exhortation followed by angelic singing in Heaven.
The narrator quotes a biblical exhortation for husbands to treat their wives with honor, then describes how a sign was given to angels who sang so beautifully that it would refute any earthly tenor's claim to perfection, as the performance was in Heaven.
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