 | Henry Hunter - 1834 - 618 pages
...leave his father and 'mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This The sons were then invested with their proper habits, and a threefo Finally, — The whole tenor of scripture teaches us to consider Adam, the first of men, as the covenant... | |
 | Robert Meek - 1834 - 436 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" The Vulgate and English Douay translation render the latter part of this passage thus — " This is... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...this meaning of the word is adapted, ami on which I shall have occasion to remark afterwards. 'This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.' Nor is it any objection to the interpretation of the word mystery here, that the Apostle alluded not... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1835 - 810 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... | |
 | Virginia Burrus, Catherine Keller - 2009 - 493 pages
...and thirsting after righteousness; or of divine loves under the figure of human (compare Eph.: "This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church"); as the mediaeval saint might speak of the "fruitio Dei"; as Dante saw all things contained in his love... | |
 | Brian Roberts - 2006 - 339 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. Christ left his Heavenly Father and his earthly Mother, joined himself to the Church in his life of... | |
 | Patrick McIntyre - 2006 - 130 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" (Ephesians 5:31-32). While in this case Paul was speaking of the corporate body being the Bride of... | |
 | Bethany Scanlon - 2006 - 118 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... | |
 | Sydney Frank Paul - 2006 - 210 pages
...much when, in his Epistle to the Ephesians, he quotes this very word from Genesis and then says: "This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the church" (ch. 5. 31, 32). And did not the Lord Jesus leave His Father? He said Himself to Nicodemus, "No man... | |
 | Ray Anthony Poole - 2006 - 186 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... | |
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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. 
