“Where are we to find language adequately to express the happiness of that marriage which the church cements, the oblation confirms, the benediction signs and seals, the angels celebrate, and the Father holds as approved? For all around the earth young people do not rightly and lawfully wed without their parents' conse…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — TO HIS WIFE 2.8
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8And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
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6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
— Mark 10:8 —
9What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
10And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.