"This living together of husband and wife—that they occupy the same home, that they take care of the household, that together they produce and bring up children—is a kind of faint image and a remnant, as it were, of that blessed living together [in Eden]."
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Martin Luther, “A CRITICAL AND DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY ON GENESIS”, (1545); BASED ON DR. HENRY COLE'S TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN. REVISED, ENLARGED, PARTS RETRANSLATED AND EDITED IN COMPLETE FORM BY JOHN NICHOLAS LENKER, D.D.VOL. I.; LUTHERANS IN ALL LANDS CO., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., U.S.A.1904
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