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Tractatus de matrimonio Christiano

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Pohle ref:4.1056, on how unconsummated marriages signify Christ's union with the Church, and consummation signifies Incarnation:

Cfr. St. Thomas, Summa Theol., Suppl. , qu. 61, art. 2, ad 1: “Matrimonium ante carnalem copulam significat illam coniunctionem, quae est Christi ad animam per gratiam, … sed post carnalem copulam significat coniunctionem Christi ad Ecclesiam quantum ad assumptionem humanae naturae in unitatem personae, quae omnino est indivisibilis.” —For a fuller development of the doctrine set forth in our thesis see Palmieri, De Matrimonio Christ. , thes. 24 [PDF pp. 230-32].