Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 63

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63. It will be shown in the section mentioned above how the Lord forms a church with a married couple, and by means of this forms conjugial love. Here I shall only say that the church is formed by the Lord with the man, and with the wife by means of the man. When the church is formed with both, it is fully made; for then there is a full linking of good with truth, and the linking of these makes the church. It will be demonstrated by the arguments which follow in sequence that the tendency to union, which is conjugial love, is proportionate to the linking of good and truth, which makes the church.


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