Note 1210 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
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Swinburne, op. cit., 207-9. The symbolism of the ring is explained in the same spirit by Martin Bucer, Script. Anglic. (Basel, 1577), Censur. in ordinat. eccles., cap. xx, pp. 488, 489: Whitgift, "Defence of the Answer," Works, III, 353 n. 11. (Cf. chap. xi, below, where this passage is quoted.) The early rituals, as we have seen (above, chap, vii, sec. 1), quote the Decree of Gratian as authority for the "vein extending to the heart."