“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh — the quotation of Genesis 2:24 (ekleipō pater kai mēter, katakollao, mia sarx) establishes the heterosexual union as the primordial pattern of human bonding.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:31
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” Behold again a third ground of obligation; for he shows that a man leaving them that begot him, and from whom he was born, is knit to his wife; and that then the one flesh is, father, and mother, and the child, from the substance of the two commingled. For indeed by the commingling of their seeds is the child produced, so that the three are one flesh.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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