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62. That marriage is not to be
contracted with Gentiles.
In Tobias: “Take a wife from the seed
of thy parents, and take not a strange woman who is not of the tribe of
thy parents.”4510
Also in Genesis, Abraham sends his
servant to take from his seed Rebecca, for his son Isaac. Also in
Esdras, it was not sufficient for God when the Jews were laid waste,
unless they forsook their foreign wives, with the children also whom
they had begotten of them. Also in the first Epistle of Paul to
the Corinthians: “The woman is bound so long as her husband
liveth; but if he die, she is freed to marry whom she will, only in the
Lord. But she will be happier if she abide thus.”4511
And
again: “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of
Christ? Shall I take the members of Christ, and make them the
members of an harlot? Far be it from me. Or know ye not
that he who is joined together with an harlot is one body? for two
shall be in one
flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord is one
spirit.”4512
Also in
the second to the Corinthians: “Be not joined together with
unbelievers. For what participation is there between
righteousness and unrighteousness? or what communication hath light
with darkness?”4513
Also concerning Solomon in the
third book of Kings: “And foreign wives turned away his
heart after their gods.”4514
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1 Kings xi. 4. [Surely this principle is
important in teaching fathers and mothers how to guard the social
relations of children.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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