“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband — the summary: hekastos ... agapaō ('each one ... love') tēn heautou gynaika ('his own wife') hōs heauton ('as himself'), and the gyne phobeomai ('the wife fear,' 'respect') ton andra ('her husband'), reciprocal obligation.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:33
“Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.” For indeed, in very deed, a mystery it is, yea, a great mystery, that a man should leave him that gave him being, him that begot him, and that brought him up, and her that travailed with him and had sorrow, those that have bestowed upon him so many and great benefits, those with whom he has been in familiar intercourse, and be joined to one who was…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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