Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 10172

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10172. From the marriage of goodness and truth in heaven and in the Church we may learn what marriages on earth ought to be like, namely that they ought to be unions consisting of one husband and one wife, and that love which is indeed conjugial does not exist at all if one husband has a number of wives.


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