Tobit 6:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell.

¹⁶ Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.

¹⁷ For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the devil hath power.