House and riches are the inheritance from fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
Who are the two or three who gather in the name of Christ with the Lord in their midst? By three does he not mean husband, wife and child? “A wife is united with her husband by God.” But if a man wishes to be unencumbered and prefers to avoid producing children because of the time it takes up, then, says the apostle, “he had better stay unmarried like me.” … God through his Son is with those who responsibly marry and produce children, and it is the same God who in the same way is with the man who shows selfcontrol in the light of the Logos. ..
When a certain wise man says, “It is by the Lord that a man is matched with a woman,” he means this: God made marriage, and not that it is God that joins together every man that comes to be married with a woman. For we see many that come to be with one another for evil, even by the law of marriage, and this we should not ascribe to God. .
