Ephesians 5:28 — King James Version← Study notes
“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
Ephesians 5:28 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Ephesians 5:2820 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
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,…
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