"Covenant binds the man and wife so completely it changes them and they receive new names. A woman traditionally took her husband's name in order to show that she was bound to him; and a man was given a new title, husband -- which means house-bound -- hus for house, and bund for bound. And here -- in the mans new title -- we see how one thing leads to another. Marriage makes shelter; it establishes a household." - C.R. Wiley, Man of the House
Covenants provide shelter. They domesticate the covenanters. The woman is taken from her father's home and given a new home to call her own under the name of her husband. The man is taken out of the world and into a particular place that he is called to secure, provide for, and defend.
Proverbs 24:27
Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field;
and afterwards build thine house.
The husband is a house-bound man. He is committed to his house. He is bound to use his strength for its good. He must often head there, lay his head there, and be the head there.
Proverbs 27:8
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
A husband too often away from his home is a man abandoning his post. He is placing himself and his beloved in danger by his absence. He must leave at times to get from the outside world; but he must soon return, bringing back the goods, to the place that he calls home. He should go out with intention and plan to prosper his home by he returns. A man must only be divided for a time from his house in order to be reunited to it more full for his going.
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