That he might sanctify it (ινα αυτην αγιαση). Purpose clause with ινα and the first aorist active subjunctive of αγιαζω. Jesus sta…

That he might sanctify. The great object of the Redeemer was to purify and save the church. The meaning here is that a husband is to manif…

That he might sanctify and cleanse it . . .—The true rendering is, that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it in t…

What a wonderful expression! To think that we, poor creatures that we are, should be in this way joined to Christ by a marriage union, even by a vi…

In vv.26–27 Paul explains more fully the aim of Christ’s atonement for the church. It was “to make her holy” and “to present her to himself as a ra…

That He might sanctify — or, that He might separate it to Himself; for such I consider to be the meaning of the word sanctify. Th…

The duty of wives is submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The dut…