Bible Dictionary: Marriage: Christ's Union With his Church

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Ephesians 5:23,24,32
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
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Whether the Goods of Marriage are Sufficiently Enumerated?
... Objection 2: Further, the union of Christ with the ... that neither party have intercourse
with another, so is it required that the one pay the marriage debt to ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the goods of marriage.htm

Bands of Love; Or, Union to Christ. "I Drew them with Cords of a ...
... into a nearer union still, namely, that of marriage; and in ... there is, superadded
to the natural union of Christ with His people, a mystical union by which ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till he come/bands of love or union.htm

"And the Redeemer Shall Come unto Zion, and unto them that Turn,"
... of advancement towards that happy marriage, that the ... here the great design of Christ's
union with sinners ... of God's decrees concerning his church,"none worthy ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xiv and the redeemer.htm

The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
... He seems to pronounce a great benediction over family life as he compares the
union of marriage to the association of Christ with His Church. ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter xv the epistle of.htm

The Marriage of the Lamb.
... "Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb," 19:9.
Truly ... The union of the saints to Christ in the clouds of heaven being ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the marriage of the lamb.htm

Divorce
... the tame-spirited verdict of His disciples, that since a man cannot relieve himself
from a union when it ... Christ's second proof that marriage cannot be ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 10 1-12 divorce.htm

The Marriage Feast in Cana of Galilee - the Miracle that is a Sign ...
... of blessing over the cup at the union of our ... this light, what passed at the marriage
in Cana ... the Father's business,' not our personal relationship to Christ. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter iv the marriage feast.htm

Oh, How He Loves!
... all his life, we may well say, "Behold how he loves her!" That was what Christ did
for his Church when he took her into an eternal marriage union with himself ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 56 1910/oh how he loves.htm

The Portrait of the Bride
... house, and enter into a union with Christ Jesus ineffable ... one spirit'; and the reality
of our union with Him rises above the emblem of a marriage, as high ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the portrait of the bride.htm

Letter clxvii . To Rusticus, Bishop of Gallia Narbonensis, with ...
... since the marriage tie was from the beginning so constituted as apart from the joining
of the sexes to symbolize the mystic union of Christ and His Church, it ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter clxvii to rusticus.htm