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John 20:25

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25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

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Marriage #111

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111. Few people today know what true conjugial love is and what is its origin, because few are in it. Almost all believe that it is inborn and thus emanates from a kind of instinct, as they say; and they believe this the more because a conjugial principle exists among animals, when there is such a difference between conjugial love with human beings and the conjugial principle with beasts, as there is between the state of a human being and that of a brute animal.

  
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