Even so ought (ουτως οφειλουσιν). As Christ loves the church (his body). And yet some people actually say that Paul in 1[Reference…

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. Because they are one flesh (Ephesians 5:31). This is the subject on whic…

So ought men to love their wives . . .—From this glorious digression, applying only to the divine Antitype, Saint Paul co…

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…

Paul returns to his analogy and declares that just as Christ loves the church, so husbands ought to love their wives as being one flesh with themse…

He that loveth his wife. An argument is now drawn from nature itself to prove that men ought to love their wives. Every man, by his very n…

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies
It is a common saying with the Jews, that a man's wife is (