The situation described in the letter as the second alternative is probably such: someone had a wife, and then was baptized, and then entered a monastery. Afterwards, he took another wife (the first one may have died in the meantime), thinking that the first one, having been taken before the baptism, does not count (see [1540] from the same letter), and he wanted to be ordained. Innocent I finds it an unacceptable situation. It is also possible that the passage envisages a monk who thought that being ordained would free him from the monastic discipline, including chastity.