Ephesians 5:28

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
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John Chrysostom

AD 407
What, again, means this? To how much greater a similitude, and stronger example has he come; and not only so, but also to one how much nearer and clearer, and to a fresh obligation. For that other one was of no very constraining force, for He was Christ, and was God, and gave Himself. He now manages his argument on a different ground, saying, so ought men; because the thing is not a favor, but a debt. Then, as their own bodies. And why?
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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