25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;



Ver. 25. Husbands, love your wives] He saith not, rule over them (in answer to submit, Eph_5:22), for this they can readily do without bidding; but love your wives, and so make their yoke as easy as may be. Columbae trahunt currum Veneris. Doves draw the charriot of Venus.