Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 13 — Section 482
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Volume 13
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 13
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A certain wise man, setting down a number of things in the rank of blessings, set down this also in the rank of a blessing, "A wife agreeing with her husband." (Ecclus. xxv. 1.) And elsewhere again he sets it down among blessings, that a woman should dwell in harmony with her husband. (Ecclus. xl. 23.) And indeed from the beginning, God appears to have made special provision for this union; and discoursing of the twain as one, He said thus, "Male and female created He them" (Gen. i. 27.); and again, "There is neither male nor female." (Gal. iii. 28.) For there is no relationship betwee…
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