... unmarried could successfully that was associated with sex. Augustine was understood Paul's word "mysterion" to be "sacramentum" and thought of marriage as described by Paul to be a visible sign of invisible union between Christ and his spouse, the church. And also looked at a deeper meaning of the writing, and assumed marriage to be a sacred pledge of fidelity. This mistaken interpretation was ... of calling a marriage a sacrament lies in the fact that a husband and wife try to reassert the presence and the blessing of God in their marriage with all their belief. When a man and a woman ...

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