Furthermore, we see that just as woman was made out of man, and later became husband and wife [one flesh], so it is with Jesus Christ that woman [the Church] was made from Him and of which the marriage of the Lamb is at hand though we are already one Spirit with Him. Lastly, Ephesians 5:25-32 tells us, “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, that He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless]. Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own
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