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1627 The consent consists in a "human act by which the partners mutually give themselves to each other": "I take you to be my wife" - "I take you to be my husband." ¹²⁸ This consent that binds the spouses to each other finds its fulfillment in the two "becoming one flesh." ¹²⁹

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128 GS 48 § 1; OCM 45; cf. CIC, can. 1057 § 2.

129 Gen 2:24; cf. Mt 10:8; Eph 5:31.

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