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Each of the two sexes is an Image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal Dignity though in a Different way. the Union of man and Woman in Marriage is a way of imitating in the Flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his Father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." 120 All human generations proceed from this union. 121