“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself — the extension: houtōs opheilō ('in this way ought') hoi andres agapaō ('husbands to love') tas heautōn gynaikes hōs ta heautōn sōmata ('their own wives as their own bodies'); ho agapan tēn idian gynaika heauton agapā ('he who loves his wife loves himself'), the unity principle.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:28
“Even so ought husbands to love their own wives,” says he, “as their own bodies.” What, again, means this? To how much greater a similitude, and stronger example has he come; and not only so, but also to one how much nearer and clearer, and to a fresh obligation. For that other one was of no very constraining force, for He was Christ, and was God, and gave Himself. He now manages his argument on a different ground, saying, “so ought men”; because the thing is not a favor,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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