Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:28
As their own bodies — That is, as themselves. He that loveth his wife loveth himself — Which is not a sin, but an indisputable duty.
As their own bodies — That is, as themselves. He that loveth his wife loveth himself — Which is not a sin, but an indisputable duty.
Verse 28. _AS THEIR OWN BODIES_] For the woman is, properly speaking, a _part_ of the man; for God made man _male and female_, and the woman was taken out of his side; therefore is she _flesh of his_...
SO OUGHT MEN TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES - Because they are one flesh; Ephesians 5:31. This is the subject on which Paul had been speaking, and from which he had been diverted by the allus...
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
MEN. Same as "husbands", above. WIVES. own wives. Compare "own husbands", Ephesians 5:22. WIFE. own wife....
_So_ With a love akin to the love of Christ just described. The Gr. word is one whose reference tends to _preceding_ideas. _as their own bodies_ A clause explanatory of "So" just above. It was thus t...
Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband 22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly from the truth...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
ΟὝΤΩΣ. ‘Following this example.’ The sentence reads awkwardly because ὡς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα introduces what seems to us an alien illustration of the claims of the wife on the husband, based on the unity...
ΌΦΕΊΛΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΌΦΕΙΛΈΩ (G3784) иметь долг, быть обязанным, быть должным. Слово обозначает моральную обязанность (TDNT). _Praes._ указывает на длительное действие обязательства, ΆΓΑΠ...
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
SO OUGHT MEN,— _So also,_ or _answerably to this, ought men;_ or, _on the other hand,_ taking the matter in a different but correspondent view....
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
(5:28-30) Now, just as Christ loves the Church, His Body, husbands are to "love their wives as their own bodies". This is not to extol self-love, but self-less love; love that is unbridled, not meted...
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 'So (in the same manner as Christ loves the Church) ought husbands also (thus A B Delta G f g, Vulgate,...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
RV 'Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as [being] their own bodies.' Not 'as much as,' or 'as if they were': their wives _are_ their own bodies....
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
SO OUGHT MEN TO LOVE THEIR WIVES... — From this glorious digression; applying only to the divine Antitype, St. Paul comes back to the one point, in which the type may imitate it — that is, a deep and...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general precept...
CHAPTER 25 ON FAMILY LIFE Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Ephesians 5:22 In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and attains its finest temper.
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
οὕτως ὀφείλουσιν [καὶ] οἱ ἄνδρες ἀγαπᾷν τὰς ἑαυτῶν γυναῖκας : _even so_ [_also_] _ought husbands to love their own wives_. The reading and the order vary somewhat. The ὀφείλουσιν _precedes_ οἱ ἄνδρες...
LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE Ephesians 5:22 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been exhortin...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Reasons a Man Should Love His Wife Christ actually put the love of the church above the love of his own body when he died on Calvary. In marriage, man and woman become one, thus when the husband loves...
(14) So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. (14) Another argument: every man loves himself, even by nature: therefore he strives against nature...
He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. St. Paul would have this a love like that which a man hath for himself, or for his own flesh, when they are now joined in wedlock, and are become as it were on...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24)...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. The last few teachings in Ephesians we have concentrated on Christian behavior. 1. Last week, we specifically dealt with the behavior of a Godly wife as it related to her husband....
28._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 nature, loves himself. But no man can love himself withou...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
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 כגופו, "as his own body" r; and it is one of the precepts of their wise men, that a...
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Ver. 28. _As their own bodies_] No man may hide himself from his own flesh at large, Isaiah 58:7, that is...
But to return to the subject from which this pleasing digression has led us: _So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies_ That is, as themselves, or a part of themselves; the bond of marriag...
LOVETH HIMSELF; with allusion to the scriptural declaration, "they shall be one flesh." Genesis 2:24. Their union is so intimate and indissoluble that their happiness is inseparable; and what promotes...
Further application of the comparison:...
SO OUGHT MEN TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES. HE THAT LOVETH HIS WIFE LOVETH HIMSELF....
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“EVEN SO OUGHT HUSBANDS ALSO TO LOVE THEIR OWN WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES. HE THAT LOVETH HIS OWN WIFE LOVETH HIMSELF” “Even so”: This is another aspect of what being the "head" is all about. When. loo...
22-33 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 duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
SO OUGHT MEN TO LOVE THEIR WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES; with the same kind of love wherewith they love their own bodies. The woman at first was taken out of the man, and on that account the wife may be...
Pseudo-Cyprian Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity Yet he adds, and says: "Because he who loves his wife, loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even a...
Ephesians 5:28 So G3779 husbands G435 ought G3784 (G5719) love G25 (G5721) own G1438 wives G1135 as...
HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A PATTERN OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense it i...
‘Even so ought husbands to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.' This confirms that the proper love of a husband can be compared with the love of Christ for H...
Ephesians 5:28. THUS; in this manner, as Christ loved the Church; not to be referred to the following ‘as.' OUGHT HUSBANDS ALSO TO LOVE THEIR OWN WIVES. ‘Also' is well supported, and shows that the...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._ All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations are all ‘in the L...
EVEN SO OUGHT (ουτως οφειλουσιν). As Christ loves the church (his body). And yet some people actually say that Paul in Ephesians 5:1 gives a degrading view of marriage. How can one say that after r...
Ephesians 5:22 On Marriage. I. Consider how the earthly and the heavenly views of Christian marriage which the Apostle presents to us are thoroughly one, and cannot be separated. It was an old delusi...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
MEN OUGHT TO LOVE THEIR WIVES. Paul intends to stress the close relationship between Christ and his church. In marriage, the husband and wife become one (Matthew 19:5). This love is more than a duty,...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:28 The BODY for which Christ sacrificed himself was the church. ⇐...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her husband’...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
Ephesians 5:31; Ephesians 5:33; Genesis 2:21; Matthew 19:5...
So. As Christ loved the Church. As their own bodies [ω ς]. As being : since they are....
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....
Our apostle here propounds. farther argument to enforce this duty of love from husband to wife, taken from that near conjunction between them, showing that they are one flesh and one body, not in. nat...