1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Ephesians 5:23 | *For the husband is the head of the wife; as Christ is the head of the church. He is the saviour of his body. 1 Corinthians 11:3. | 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 11:3. 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) |