Covenant Theology In Outline Form 37: Marriage & Family Edition
The Bible teaches the 3 uses of the Law & applies to individuals, families, ecclesiastical & civil institutions, governments, & whole societies. The Bible depicts expresses every covenant from God in the form of a suzerain covenant. Marriage & Family are institutions circumscribed & governed by way of suzerain covenants, namely the Eternal Covenant of Grace itself & the Marriage Covenant. Shema And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man ( Genesis 2:22 , ESV) Historical Prologue Then the man said, General Stipulations “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; Specific Stipulations she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Covenant Renewal 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, Document Clause & Witnesses and they shall become one flesh. ...