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Adam prophesied Christ & Church marriage?

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Robert Grosseteste argues that Adam prophesied the mystical marriage of Christ with the Chirch in Genesis 2:24 and Ephesians 5:32 ([Hunter, _If Adam Had Not Sinned_](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=8901) 2020, pp. 93-4): > Adam prophesied, before his fall, the marriage of Christ and the church, saying, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and will cleave to his wife, and there will be two in one flesh." About this the Apostle said, "This great mystery is of Christ and the church." \[...\] while knowing and believing nothing about the sin of the human race, which was to come, he believed in the marriage of Christ and the church. > > _DCL_ III.1.20; p. 127, 3–6: "Item, Adam ante lapsum suum prophetavit matrimonium Christi et ecclesiæ, dicens: _Quamobrem relinquet homo patrem et matrem et ad­ herebit uxori sue; et erunt duo in carne una._ De quo dicit apostolus: _Sacramentum est hoc magnum in Christo et ecclesia_." \[...\] _DCL_ III.1.20; p. 127, 13–15: "Nihil igitur de peccato humani generis quod esset futurum sciens vel credens, credidit matromonium Christi et ecclesiæ." Is this a common interpretation of Genesis 2:24 and Ephesians 5:32 , or did other Church fathers or doctors hold this view?
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Feb 28, 2022, 03:37 AM
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