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Hosea 3:2

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2 So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

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Woman, wife, bride, virgin, and daughter

  

The church is called 'a woman,' 'a wife,' 'a bride,' 'a virgin,' and 'a daughter,' when it has a celestial and angelic proprium, or selfhood.

(Odkazy: Arcana Coelestia 253)