Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Husband and wife must submit to one another in this matter, since the two of them are one flesh and one will, according to the law of nature. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
Ut "vir reddat debit urn uxori, et uxor viro, et ne frustrentur invicem".
per dictionem, "fraudetis "ostendens matrimonii debitum esse libero rum procreationem: quod quidem in iis, quae praecedunt, Ostend it, dicens: "Mulieri vir debitum reddat; similiter autem mulier quoque viro; "
Now what is the meaning of the due honor? The wife has not power over her own body; but is both the slave and the mistress of the husband. And if you decline the service which is due, you have offended God. But if you wish to withdraw yourself, it must be with the husband's permission, though it be but a for short time. For this is why he calls the matter a debt, to show that no one is master of himself but that they are servants to each other.
When therefore you see an harlot tempting you, say, My body is not mine, but my wife's. The same also let the woman say to those who would undermine her chastity, My body is not mine, but my husband's.
Now if neither husband nor wife has power even over their own body, much less have they over their property. Hear ye, all that have husbands and all that have wives: that if you must not count your body your own, much less your money.
Elsewhere I grant He gives to the husband abundant precedence, both in the New Testament, and the Old say...
