Conjugial Love (Rogers) n. 97

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97. (8) Conjugial love in a person lies within love for the opposite sex, like a gem in its native rock. Since this is only a metaphor, however, it will be explained under the next heading. It illustrates further that a love for the opposite sex is a love of the external or natural man, while conjugial love is a love of the internal or spiritual man, as we showed just above (nos. 94-96).


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