 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.  The Baptist Magazine - Page 661825Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 554 pages
...blessed union between Christ and his church : The apostle explains himself in the next words, " This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." This institution of marriagei and making the man and his wife one flesh, is a great mystery ; ie it... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...set forth by the union that subsists between husband and wife.* (' They two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church'). * We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his hones,' saith the apostle. It is set forth by... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...leave his father and his mother, and be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even- as himself; and the wife see... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 596 pages
...church; even as to the number two, and no more. Eph. v. 31, 32. ' They two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the church.' This parallel is made up by two, being joined in one ; but not in one being joined to many ; it can... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...personal union. And these two are one ; two are one flesh. " We are of his flesh, and of his bone. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." " He that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are both of one." " He that is joined to the Lord... | |
 | George Campbell - Bible - 1811 - 500 pages
...magnum est, ego autem dico in Christo et in ecclesia"; as expressed in the English translation, This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the church ; that is, as I had occasion to observe in the preceding Dissertation, to which I refer the reader34,... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - Calvinism - 1811 - 302 pages
...one." John xvii. 20, 2 1, 22. " We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." " This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." llph. v. 30 and 32. On this mystical union it is important that every believer should insist, because... | |
 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1812 - 444 pages
...man leave his fother and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. " This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the church." The head and members is another striking exemplification of this union, this mysterious union. It is... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...leave his father and his mother, and be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see... | |
 | James Relly - 1812 - 236 pages
...might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross. (1) And they two shall be one flesh ; this is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. (m) For bothhe that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one; (n; and the glory which... | |
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