So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
The example proceeds to wives from the church and to husbands from Christ…. He urges the husbands on the basis of something inferior, namely, their own body, not only from the superior, that is, their Lord.
