beautiful and rose to be a queen’ ” (Ezek. 16:8–13). The church is not cleansed by literal water (although there may be an allusion to baptism here); rather, the effective factor for salvation is the Word of God, the gospel, rooted in the blood of Christ that cleanses believers from all sin. ► Aemilius Paulus and Papiria The absence of the kind of love Paul describes as essential in marriage is well illustrated by the attitude of Aemelius Paulus toward his wife, as told by Florence Dupont: Aemilius