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And did he, God our Creator, not make one, but one man and one woman?
Yet had he the residue of the spirit; yet he could have made more men and women; and if it had been good, and well-pleasing to him, he could have made many women for one man; but though by his power he could, yet in his wisdom, goodness, and holiness he would not make more; from the beginning marriage was ordained to be between one man and one woman alone at once. So Christ argued Mat_19:4-6.
And wherefore one, one couple, and no more?
That he might seek a godly seed; or, a seed of God; either an excellent seed, as the Hebrew expresses the excellency of a thing by the addition of the name God to it; or rather a holy seed, born to God in chaste wedlock, and brought up under the instructions and virtuous examples of parents living in the fear of God, and love of each other, which in polygamy cannot be expected.
Take heed to your spirit; keep your heart from wandering after strange wives, as you tender your life and souls.
Let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth; though many have done so, let none now do it any more.