 | Arthur Philip Perceval - 1836 - 536 pagina’s
...indissoluble, and sanctify the married persons ; which thing the Apostle Paul intimates, saying, " Husbands love your wives, as Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it ;" presently adding, " This is a great mystery ; but I speak concerning Christ and the Church."... | |
 | 1849 - 898 pagina’s
...well look into a den of devils as at thyself ; there is nothing but darkness there. But the apostle says, " Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it." Ah, blessed truth! how precious is it ! Gave himself for the church ! To whom did he give... | |
 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1849 - 390 pagina’s
...her priest. These offices cannot be separated : they are a threefold cord that cannot be broken. " Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it." Now, there is more evidence that he is her priest than that he is either her king or prophet.... | |
 | William Adams - 1850 - 392 pagina’s
...Christian doctrine of the Supremacy of the husband and the obedience of the wife ; and I believe it will bo seen that it is the doctrine upheld by reason and...wives as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it :" this compares the marriage union to that of Christ and the church; this, instead of "Civil... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1868 - 394 pagina’s
...husband and wife to estimate the marriage-state as 'holy,' 'sanctified,' 'honorable in all.' Christianity alone says, ' Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it.' This compares the marriage-union to that of Christ and the Church; instead of ' civil contract,'... | |
 | Henry Formby - 1871 - 330 pagina’s
...The marriage of Isaac with Rebecca is a figure of the espousals of Christ with the Church. St. Paul says, ' Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for her.' (Eph. v. 25.) § 15. The birth of Emu and Jacob. Esau profanely sells his first birtliriijlit,... | |
 | Eli Robinson McCall, Michael Magaul - 1886 - 424 pagina’s
...female-property as I can beat the patient ass or tough ox. But these sort get no countenance from the Apostle who says, " Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it." Woman, then, being compared in her moral beauty to the Church, must attain Christian exclusiveness.... | |
 | Charles Chapman Grafton - 1914 - 282 pagina’s
...head of the Church." "As the Church is subject unto Christ, so let wives be to their own husbands. " " Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it." For this cause shall they be joined and "they two shall be one flesh." "This is a great mystery... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1920 - 494 pagina’s
...outward semblance of her curse remains, in Him it is nullified by love being made the law of marriage. " Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it." Who shall call subjection to such a husband a curse? Truly " He, who was made a curse for... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1926 - 416 pagina’s
...outward semblance of her curse remains, in Him it is nullified by love being made the law of marriage. " Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it." Who shall call subjection to such a husband a curse ? Truly " He who was made a curse for... | |
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