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| The Doctrine of the Same Apostle Concerning Purity.
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Chapter X.—The Doctrine
of the Same Apostle Concerning Purity.
Now Paul, when summoning all persons to
sanctification and purity, in this way referred that which had been
spoken concerning the first man and Eve in a secondary sense to Christ
and the Church, in order to silence the ignorant, now deprived of all
excuse. For men who are incontinent in consequence of the
uncontrolled impulses of sensuality in them, dare to force the
Scriptures beyond their true meaning, so as to twist into a defence of
their incontinence the saying, “Increase and
multiply;”2583
and the
other, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother;”2584
and they
are not ashamed to run counter to the Spirit, but, as though born for
this purpose, they kindle up the smouldering and lurking passion,
fanning and provoking it; and therefore he, cutting off very sharply
these dishonest follies and invented excuses, and having arrived at the
subject of instructing them how men should behave to their wives,
showing that it should be as Christ did to the Church, “who gave
Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it by the
washing2585
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[Laver (Gr. λουτρὸν).
Compare Tit. iii.
5 and Calvin’s
comment, Opp., tom. ii. p. 506, ed. 1667.] | of water by the
Word,”2586
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Eph. v. 25, 26. [Baptismus = lavacrum
animæ.—Calvin, Ib., p.
350.] | he referred
back to Genesis, mentioning
the things spoken concerning the first man, and explaining these things
as bearing on the subject before him, that he might take away occasion
for the abuse of these passages from those who taught the sensual
gratification of the body, under the pretext of begetting
children.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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