We have four connections to Scripture from today's passage! I'll focus on two links this week and two next week. And in case you are wondering if this will wrap up the wedding of Kitty and Levin -- no, it will not. The following is from Part V, Chapter 6 of Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy:
"Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female," the priest read after the exchange of rings, "from Thee woman was given to man to be a helpmeet to him, and for the procreation of children. O Lord, our God, who hast poured down the blessings of Thy Truth according to Thy Holy Covenant upon Thy chosen servants, our fathers, from generation to generation, bless Thy servants Konstantin and Yekatrina and make their throth fast in faith, and union of hearts, and truth, and love . . ."******************************************************************************
"Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female . . ."
Genesis 1:26-28
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
". . . from Thee woman was given to man to be a help meet to him, and for the procreation of children.Genesis 2:18
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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