and they shall be — the two — for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;
therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.’
have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? ‘for they shall be — saith He — the two for one flesh.’
so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife — himself he doth love;