...and between whom he hath commanded so great and dear a friendship to be maintained? Eph. v. 28, 29. So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies....loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh ; butnourishelhandcherisheth it, even at the Lord the church. Eph. v. 25. Husbands love your wives,...

...St. Paul inculcates very forcibly upon all husbands. ' So ought men to love their wives,' he saith, ' as their own bodies ; he that loveth his wife loveth...his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it.' You see, then, in this case, what an excellent and beautiful moral conclusion the apostle arrives at...

...St. Paul inculcates very forcibly upon all husbands. ' So ought men to love their wives,' he saith, ' as their own bodies ; he that loveth his wife loveth...his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it.' You see, then, in this case, what an excellent and beautiful moral conclusion the apostle arrives at...

...having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. No man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth...Lord the church. For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones ;" Eph. v. 25—27. 29. 30. Judge by these passages whether the sanctified...

...himself for it — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies; he that loveth his wife lov. eth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh,...cherisheth it even as the Lord the church — For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they...

...thou live but with him ? Thou art a member of his body, of his flesh and bone ; (Eph. v. 30 ;) and no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church : (verse 29 :) as he came down in flesh to be a suitor to thee, so he caused thee to let go all for...

...thou live but with him ? Thou art a member of his body, of his flesh and bone ; (Bph. v. 30 ;) and no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church : (verse 29 :) as he came down in flesh to be a suitor to thee, so he caused thee to let go all for...

...duty, I must just advert to another rule of his regard which is laid down for him by the apostle. " So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies : he that loveth his wife loveth himself." A man's children are parts of himself ; his wife is himself: "for they two shall be one flesh." " This...

...body of Christ.' (Eph. iv. 4—12.) ' The husband is the head of ' the wife, even as Christ is head of the Church ; and he is the ' Saviour of the body,...and cherisheth it? even as the Lord the « Church.' (Eph. v. 23.) See 2. Cor. xi. 2. Col. i. 22. 1. Thess. v. 28. Psl. xlv. 13.— Ixxxvii. 3. Is. Ix....

...as before, with some enlargement ; complete identity of interest and being in those thus related. " So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies....his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it." It was not possible to express this idea of oneness in language more forcible ; and all the theories...