"As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two."
"Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face."
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Source: Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.150
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