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Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 5:28

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Ephesians5:28

28 So ought men to love their wives, as their own bodies : He that loveth his wi[illegible: 1 letter]e, loveth himself .

With the same kind of love wherewith he loves his own Body. The Woman at first was taken out of the Man, and on that account the wife may be said to be a part of her Husband.

Either this explains the former, and himself here is the same as his own Body before, or it adds to it, and is as much as his own Person, the Wife being another self, one Flesh, the same Person (in a civil sense) with her Husband.

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