Ephesians 5:23

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For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Further, the broad gold mitre indicates the regal power of the Lord, "since the Head of the Church "is the Savour.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

For the husband is the head of the wife. Though St. Paul here speaks of a man, who is a husband, we may rather translate man than husband, being the same sentence and same words as 1 Corinthians xi. 3. where even the Protestant translation has, that the man is head of the woman. He (Christ) is the saviour of his mystical body, the Church: though some expound it, that the husband is to save and take care of his wife, who is as it were his body. (Witham)

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Jerome

AD 420

Note that the church is never called the flesh but always the body of Christ. Whatever lives according to the flesh must necessarily be embodied. That is true. But it is not true that whatever is body is consequently living according to the flesh. –.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Then after saying, The husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is of the Church, he further adds, and He is the Saviour of the body. For indeed the head is the saving health of the body. He had already laid down beforehand for man and wife, the ground and provision of their love, assigning to each their proper place, to the one that of authority and forethought, to the other that of submission. As then the Church, that is, both husbands and wives, is subject unto Christ, so also ye wives submit yourselves to your husbands, as unto God.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

When they are in harmony, and their children are being reared well and their household is in good order, their neighbors will smell the sweet fragrance of harmony, along with all their friends and relatives. But if the contrary is true, everything is overturned and thrown into confusion. .

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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

AD 550

Again: Christ is the head of the Church."

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

What reason does he give for this? "Because "says he, "the husband is the head of the wife.". Pray tell me, Marcion, does your god build up the authority of his law on the work of the Creator? This, however, is a comparative trifle; for he actually derives from the same source the condition of his Christ and his Church; for he says: "even as Christ is the head of the Church; "

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