Anf-01 v.viii.v Pg 3
Eph. v. 25.
If any one can continue in a state of purity,1093 1093
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xviii Pg 31
Eph. v. 25; 28.
You see how your Christ and your Church are put in comparison with the work of the Creator. How much honour is given to the flesh in the name of the church! “No man,” says the apostle, “ever yet hated his own flesh” (except, of course, Marcion alone), “but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the Church.”6032 6032
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xviii Pg 31
Eph. v. 25; 28.
You see how your Christ and your Church are put in comparison with the work of the Creator. How much honour is given to the flesh in the name of the church! “No man,” says the apostle, “ever yet hated his own flesh” (except, of course, Marcion alone), “but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth the Church.”6032 6032
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.vii Pg 12.1
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xviii Pg 32
Eph. v. 29.
But you are the only man that hates his flesh, for you rob it of its resurrection. It will be only right that you should hate the Church also, because it is loved by Christ on the same principle.6033 6033 Proinde.
Yea, Christ loved the flesh even as the Church. For no man will love the picture of his wife without taking care of it, and honouring it and crowning it. The likeness partakes with the reality in the privileged honour. I shall now endeavour, from my point of view,6034 6034 Ego.
to prove that the same God is (the God) of the man6035 6035 Masculi.
and of Christ, of the woman and of the Church, of the flesh and the spirit, by the apostle’s help who applies the Creator’s injunction, and adds even a comment on it: “For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, (and shall be joined unto his wife), and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery.”6036 6036
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 5
VERSE (33) - :25,28,29 Col 3:19 1Pe 3:7
