| 1813 - 580 pages
...spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing j but that it should be holy and without blemish. Ver. 32. This is a great mystery : but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Col. i. 18. And he is the head of the body, the church ; who is the beginning, the Srst-born from the... | |
| William White - 1813 - 532 pages
...word. The scriptural authority alleged for making a Sacrament of marriage, is Ephes. v. 32—" This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church." The Latin vulgate, which the Church of Rome follows, has it — *' This is a great Sacrament." On the... | |
| Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife ; and they two shall he 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. Likewise the same... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 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." Christ is a spiritual head to his people, as is intimated in the verses immediately preceding those... | |
| Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 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." Likewise the same... | |
| William Dell - 1816 - 608 pages
...not only Christ, the head of the church, but also the church, the body of Christ : Ephes. v. 32. This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church: And this latter mystery (though both indeed make up one and the same mystery) of the church, or Christ... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 536 pages
...XVIII. The Marriage-Ring; or, the Mysteriousness and Duties of Marriage 324, 344. EPHES. v. 32, 33. This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so lov« his wife even as himself; and the wife see... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 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 marriage, making. the man and his wife one flesh, is a great mystery ; ie there... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 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 f." The language used in celebrating the Mysteries was a TONGUE UNKNOWN to the Greeks: and various... | |
| Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - 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... | |
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