{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4341","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":28,"verse_to":28},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: Ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, and have them in esteem, and serve them with fear and love, as holy Sarah honoured Abraham. For she could not endure to call him by his name, but called him lord, when she said, \"My lord is old.\" In like manner, ye husbands, love your own wives as your own members, as partners in life, and fellow-helpers for the procreation of children. For says He, \"Rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her conversation be to thee as a loving hind, and a pleasant foal; let her alone guide thee, and be with thee at all times: for if thou beest every way encompassed with her friendship, thou wilt be happy in her society.\" Love them therefore as your own members, as your very bodies; for so it is written, \"The Lord has testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth; and she is thy partner, and another has not made her: and she is the remains of thy spirit;\" and, \"Take heed to your spirit, and do not forsake the wife of thy youth.\"<br/><i>— Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book 6</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: 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.<br/><i>— On Continence 23</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: The ruling power is therefore the head. And if \"the Lord is head of the man, and the man is head of the woman,\" the man, \"being the image and glory of God, is lord of the woman.\" Wherefore also in the Epistle to the Ephesians it is written, \"Subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the Church; and He is the Saviour of the body. Husbands, love your wives, as also Christ loved the Church. So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies: he that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh.\"<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 4</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: The precepts of chastity, brethren, are ancient. Wherefore do I say ancient? Because they were ordained at the same time as men themselves. For both her own husband belongs to the woman, for the reason that besides him she may know no other; and the woman is given to the man for the purpose that, when that which had been his own had been yielded to him, he should seek for nothing belonging to another. And in such wise it is said, \"Two shall be in one flesh,\" that what had been made one should return together, that a separation without return should not afford any occasion to a stranger. Thence also the apostle declares that the man is the head of the woman, that he might commend chastity in the conjunction of the two. For as the head cannot be suited to the limbs of another, so also one's limbs cannot be suited to the head of another: for one's head matches one's limbs, and one's limbs one's head; and both of them are associated by a natural link in mutual concord, lest, by any discord arising from the separation of the members, the compact of the divine covenant should be broken. Yet he adds, and says: \"Because he who loves his wife, loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ the Church.\" From this passage there is great authority for charity with chastity, if wives are to be loved by their husbands even as Christ loved the Church and wives ought so to love their husbands also as the Church loves Christ.<br/><i>— Pseudo-Cyprian Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Even so ought husbands to love their own wives,\" saith he, \"as their own bodies.\"</p><p>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?<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 20</i></p><p><b>Methodius of Olympus</b>: Chapter I.-Passages of Holy Scripture Compared.<br/>For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.\"<br/><i>— Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fa3aab615af8243ade30c399ba1a0dabd46db89adacaa31d91ab09a81d49dfc0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4341,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"64e660a4ab979797a731e01ea4668924e4eaf3d11c726186beb497eef5bb407c","translator":null,"work":null}