The Institution of Marriage (1)

Another institution of Paradise was the ordinance of marriage. The assertion of Paul to the effect that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God -- this assertion places the marital relation in a class with the things partaking of a typical-symbolical character. The ordi­nance of marriage, therefore, belongs to that department of theological science which we are investigating. Let us direct our attention to this institution,...