What Does Wife Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

The wife is not a person acquired but a part of the mind recovered, the tender perception fear had exiled and love now welcomes home. A mind divided against itself lives in scarcity, and to find her is to find the piece it had disowned, so what was split begins to be whole again.

The favor that follows is not a prize granted from above but the natural peace of a mind no longer at war with itself. When the gentle within is joined rather than banished, the mind rests in what it always was. Wholeness is the good thing, and wholeness is its own blessing.

• Wife: the gentle, joined perception the mind had disowned and now recovers, the tender half of itself that fear exiled and love welcomes home

The number 7 is the full cycle of a person's states, the complete week of the lower nature running through its whole succession. The 7 brothers are these stages of the earthly self, each taking the same soul-power in turn, each dying without leaving true fruit.

So the soul is handed down through the entire round of mortal states and none can generate what endures. Every merely physical union of a person leaves nothing that survives the passing of its own stage.

• 7 brethren: the complete cycle of a person's earthly states, the 7 stages of the lower nature taking the soul in turn
• Wife: the receptive soul-faculty bound in succession to each temporary condition, joined to flesh yet bearing no lasting fruit