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"So, when the apostle assigns the very words of Adam to Christ with reference to His church ['This is now bone...,'], he means to indicate that between Christ and us is the greatest and most exclusive of unions, for we are both Christ's flesh (by way of marriage) and flesh of His flesh (by way of regeneration)."

"Therefore, just as the material whence Eve was formed was taken from the sleeping Adam, so also from Christ, dead on the cross, blood and water flowed, whereby the church is washed from her sins, conceived, and born again, made flesh of Christ's flesh and bone of His bones. Her birth is by blood; her washing is by water."