Talk:Mark 10:2-9
drafty:
(As I read it, it is a matter of the Teacher's masterly rhetoric. He brackets his reference to the journey by which two children become "one flesh", two inseparable adults, between references to two passages in which "adam, male and female" refers to humankind, people generally. The symmetry and appeal of this pattern contrasts with hard-hearted separation, and builds up to the rhetorical climax of Verse 9. — BP)
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Gen 1
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.
Gen 5:2 RSV 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.
KJV 2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh
