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A Bride Made Ready
Commentators explain that Christ's cleansing of the church is pictured like the ancient preparation of a bride for her wedding. Just as a bride was washed and adorned to be presented to her husband, Christ lovingly purifies His church to make her holy and consecrated to Him.
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Ephesians
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Albert Barnes
On Ephesians 5:26
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify it (ινα αυτην αγιαση). Purpose clause with ινα and the first aorist active subjunctive of αγιαζω. Jesus sta…
Charles Ellicott
On Ephesians 5:26
19th Century
Bishop
That he might sanctify and cleanse it . . .—The true rendering is, that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it in t…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Ephesians 5:22–30
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Ephesians 5:26
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…
John Calvin
On Ephesians 5:26
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Ephesians 5:26
17th Century
Pastor
Ver. 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it
Being defiled, both with original sin and actual transgressions; for G…
Matthew Henry
On Ephesians 5:22–33
17th Century
Minister
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…