Published: 2005-12-30

Specification of Unity between Man and Woman According to the Book of Genesis 2:24–25

Jerzy Kułaczkowski
Seminare. Learned Investigations
Section: Theology
https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2005.21.10

Abstract

According to analysis included in this article and concerning a unity between man and woman described in Gen 2, 24–25 the principal truth arising from them is location of marriage in the context of God`s work. This, un turn, allows for drawing conclusion of Divine origin of this relationship. This also constitutes another manifestation of the efforts at adding value of marriage and placing it in a proper place of the whole order of created world. A nature of marriage understood as a close relationship of a man and a woman, superior in quality to such an important as that of a child with his parents is determined and confirmed here. This closeness is called “unity” here for the first time in the Bible. The unity consists in a full union of a man and a woman, firstly with regard to
this, which decides of their humanity and then to this, which decides of their dissimilarity and thanks to which they complement each other, realizing in this way the plan of God.

Keywords:

Bible, Genesis, marriage, woman, man, marital unity

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Kułaczkowski, J. (2005). Specification of Unity between Man and Woman According to the Book of Genesis 2:24–25. Seminare. Learned Investigations, 21, 135–145. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2005.21.10

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