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IN THE TIME OF CHRIST
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sanction of His divine authority to the prophetic teaching, and inaugurates an epoch of moral progress under the control of His Gospel, which, by slow but advancing stages, would raise the institution of marriage to an altitude of purity and moral power which neither the Jewish nation nor the ancient world could imagine.