Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 5:32
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Ephesians5:32
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.
Either, this that was spoken before of a marriage union between Christ and the Church, and its being of his flesh, and of his bones is a great mystery, and so in the latter part of the Verse the Apostle explains himself. Or, this that was said of the conjunction of Adam and Eve is a great mystery, (i. e. a great secret in Religion) as being a Type of Christ's marriage with his Church; though not an instituted Type appointed by God to signifie this, yet a kind of natural Type as having a resemblance to it.
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