 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
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...all things, to the " church, which is his body." Is there a strict union between man and wife? " 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 " bones." By means of this divine junction,... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - Christian literature, Early - 1818 - 452 pages
...of to our own eternal comfort, and most assured hope, when he adds those most precious words : This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. CHAP. XVI. Of the Two Natures in Christ. FOR this cause, O Lord my God, my tongue, my heart, my every... | |
 | William Paley - Bible - 1822 - 282 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... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...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. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 634 pages
...kingdom. SERMON XVII. THE MARRIAGE RING; OR, THE M YSTERIOUSN ESS AND DUTIES OF MARRIAGE. PART I. 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 626 pages
...Marriage-Ring ; or, the Mysteriousness and Duties of Marriage ,-.... 248, 263 Ephes. v. 32, 33. 77/is 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 326 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... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy, Modern - 1823 - 466 pages
...his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the church. PARAPHRASE. Christ also loved the church, and gave himself to death for it; 26 That he might sanctify... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pages
...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." As the wife is, by the marriage covenant, united to her husband ; as, in some respects, " they are... | |
 | Joseph Fletcher - Apostolic succession - 1823 - 672 pages
...and his 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 Apostle calls the formation of Eve from Adam's body, and his marriage with her, and the intimate... | |
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