Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ephesians 5:29
Verse 29. No man ever yet hated his own flesh] And this is a natural reason why he should love his wife, and nourish and cherish her.
Verse 29. No man ever yet hated his own flesh] And this is a natural reason why he should love his wife, and nourish and cherish her.
FOR NO MAN EVER YET HATED HIS OWN FLESH - This is urged as an argument why a man should love his wife and show kindness to her. As no man disregards the happiness of his own body, or himself, so he sh...
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....
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
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...
NO MAN. no one. Greek. _oudeis._ YET. Omit. NOURISHETH. Greek. _ektrepho._ Only here and Ephesians 6:4. CHERISHETH. Greek. _thalpo._ Only here and 1 Thessalonians 2:7. THE LORD. The texts read "Ch...
_no_man _ever_ under normal conditions. True, in a distorted mental state a man may "hate his own flesh." And in obedience to the will of God a man may so act as to be _said_to hate it; to choose that...
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...
ΤῊΝ ἙΑΥΤΟΥ͂ ΣΆΡΚΑ. The change from σῶμα marks the transition to the new aspect of the thought. Husband and wife, though not ‘one body’ as Christ and the Church, are as Genesis 2 witnesses ‘one flesh.’...
THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
ΈΜΊΣΗΣΕΝ _aor. Aor._ ind. от ΜΙΣΈΩ (G3404) ненавидеть. Гномический _aor._ выражает постоянную истину, ΕΚΤΡΈΦΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΤΡΈΦΩ (G1625) питать, вскармливать детей, выращивать (Т). Предло...
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...
_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....
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: FOR. Grant that a man's wife is himself (Ephesians 5:28), he is sure to love her, "For no ma...
__ 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...
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...
The change from 'body' to 'flesh' prepares for what is coming....
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...
EVEN AS THE LORD THE CHURCH: FOR WE... — Again St. Paul escapes from the type to rest on the Antitype (see Ephesians 5:32). The idea of the natural rearing and cherishing the body suggests the thought...
(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...
[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...
HIS OWN FLESH — _i.e.,_ as above (Ephesians 5:28), _his own body._ There are two parts of the natural care for our own bodies; first, “to nourish” (properly, _to rear them up from childhood,_ as in Ep...
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...
οὐδεὶς γάρ ποτε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σάρκα ἐμίσησεν : _for no one ever hated his own flesh_. The γάρ gives a reason for the preceding statement, looking to the _thought_, however, rather than to the _form_ of t...
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...
For no man ever yet hated his (p) own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (p) His own body....
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....
29._Even as Christ the church. _He proceeds to enforce the obligations of marriage by representing to us Christ and his Church; for a more powerful example could not have been adduced. The strong affe...
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...
FOR NO MAN EVER YET HATED HIS OWN FLESH,.... This is unnatural, contrary to the first principles of nature; see Isaiah 58:7; which the u Jews understand of one that is near akin, and there is none nea...
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: Ver. 29. _For no man ever hated_] No man but a monk, who whips himself, or a mad man, Mark 5:5,...
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...
AS THE LORD THE CHURCH; which is "his flesh and his bones," verse Ephesians 5:30. As a man cares for himself, and as Christ cares for his church, so a husband should care for his wife....
FOR NO MAN EVER YET HATED HIS OWN FLESH, BUT NOURISHETH AND CHERISHETH IT, EVEN AS THE LORD THE CHURCH;...
Further application of the comparison:...
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...
“FOR NO MAN EVER HATED HIS OWN FLESH; BUT NOURISHETH AND CHERISHETH IT, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO THE CHURCH” “Ever hated his own flesh”: “His own person” (Gspd). “That it is natural to love oneself is evid...
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...
NO MAN; none in his right senses; or no man hates his flesh absolutely, but the diseases or miseries of it. HIS OWN FLESH; his body. NOURISHETH AND CHERISHETH IT; feeds and clothes it, and supplies it...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V How much honour is given to the flesh in the name of the church! "No man," says the apostle, "ever yet hated his own flesh" (except, of course, Marcion alone), "but...
Ephesians 5:29 For G1063 one G3762 ever G4218 hated G3404 (G5656) own G1438 flesh G4561 but G235 nourishes...
‘For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church, because we are members of His body.' A man takes great care of his own body, and nourishes and che...
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...
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...
Ephesians 5:29. FOR. We may supply: if a man does not love his wife he acts against nature, for, etc. HO ONE, no human being, EVER HATED HIS OWN FLESH. ‘Flesh' as here used is nearly equivalent to ‘b...
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...
NOURISHETH (εκτρεφε). Old compound with perfective sense of εκ (to nourish up to maturity and on). In N.T. only here and Ephesians 6:4.CHERISHETH (θαλπε). Late and rare word, once in a marriage co...
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...
NO ONE EVER HATES. "No one in his right mind would hate his own body! Instead he feeds it generously and takes very good care of it, and this is just how Christ treats his church!!! And of course this...
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...
Ecclesiastes 4:5; Ephesians 5:31; Ezekiel 34:14; Ezekiel 34:15;...
Flesh. Instead of body, with reference to Genesis 2:23. Cherisheth [θ α λ π ε ι]. Only here and 1 Thessalonians 2:7. Originally, to warm....
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....
His own flesh — That is, himself. Nourisheth and cherisheth — That is, feeds and clothes it....