SD 25.1
Savoy Declaration
25.1. Of Marriage
Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time.
Proof texts
- Gen. 2:24 — [24] Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
- Matt. 19:5, 6 — [5] and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? [6] So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
- Prov. 2:17 — [17] who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
For discussion
- The Assembly cited Gen. 2:24 in support of this answer. Read it in context — how does it bear on what is claimed here?
- 3 passages are cited here. Which does the most work, and is anything claimed that the proofs do not obviously carry?
- WCF 24.1 treats the same ground. What does it add, and why might it put things differently?