A Chaste Virgin, Husbands, and Wives True, the Apostle Paul might address the saints concerning his desire to present them as a chaste virgin to Christ (2 Cor. 11:2 ). But this no more declares that the Church IS the Bride of Christ than that the Apostle himself was their father (1 Corinthians 4:15 ); or that he was their mother (Galatians 4:19 ). In the one case he spoke of the painful anxiety of a mother; in another of the loving care of a father; while, in 2 Cor. 11:2 , he spoke of the jealousy of the friend of a bridegroom. The Mystery was a totally different thing. Then in Ephesians 4:28-29 , the argument is that husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself, for no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord, the Church, for we are members of His Body, That is, AS Christ loves HIS OWN BODY (Himself (the Head) and the Church (the Heads Body)); so ought husbands to love their wives. Thus the Mystery is employed as an argument as to the reciprocal duties of husbands and wives. In NEITHER case is it said that the Church IS the wife, or that Christ IS the husband. But that AS Christ loves His Body (Himself and the Body of Christ), SO husbands ought to love their own bodies (that is, themselves and their wives). https://youtube/watch?v=SKhxCh2YYsc
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 01:12:29 +0000
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