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Nevertheless (plēn). “Howbeit,” not to dwell unduly (Abbott) on the matter of Christ and the church.
Do ye also severally love (kai humeis hoi kath' hena hekastos agapātō). An unusual idiom. The verb agapātō (present active imperative) agrees with hekastos and so is third singular instead of agapāte (second plural) like humeis. The use of hoi kath' hena after humeis = “ye one by one” and then hekastos takes up (individualizes) the “one” in partitive apposition and in the third person.
Let the wife see that she fear (hē gunē hina phobētai). There is no verb in the Greek for “let see” (blepetō). For this use of hina with the subjunctive as a practical imperative without a principal verb (an elliptical imperative) see note on Mar 5:23, Mat 20:32, 1Co 7:29, 2Co 8:7, Eph 4:29 (Robertson, Grammar, p. 994). “Fear” (phobētai, present middle subjunctive) here is “reverence.”