8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Our Lord Jesus was an itinerant Preacher, did not continue long in a place, for the whole land of Canaan was his parish, or diocese, and therefore he would visit every part of it, and give instructions to those in the remotest corners of it. Here we have him in the coasts of Judea, by the further side of Jordan eastward, as we found him, not long since, in the utmost borders westward, near Tyre an…
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