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by the word, that he might present the church to himself in glory, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it might be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. The governing part does not wish to be harsh to the subject. For this is true rule, that the ruler care for those under him, which has appeared in Christ, who sought not what was fitting for himself, but what was profitable for the Church. For his glory was in immortality, and this was both due and fitting; but the salvation of the Church was in the cleansing of sin, which did not happen simply, unless Christ wrought a transformation of the defiled life, destroying its likeness by death, so that by dying with him we might be released from the life we were living. And the cause of this cleansing is holy baptism. For to that water is added the invocation through the word, rendering it holy. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. Because we are members of his body, 95.852 of his flesh and of his bones. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. If the wife is the flesh of the husband, let him care for her, it says, as flesh; and if we know Christ as being the husband of the Church, and having made us members of himself through the life in the Spirit, let them imitate the love of Christ toward the Church. This mystery is great; but I speak in reference to Christ and the Church. He joined the spiritual to the carnal, showing this to be a type of that. For thus it becomes a mystery with the truth hidden in the type, that the taking of the woman from the man, and her union with the man, was a type of Christ and the Church. For from Christ we have our being according to holiness, and having been sanctified, we are united to Christ. Nevertheless, let each one of you individually so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she fears her husband. CHAPTER 6. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. For this is right. The saying, therefore, is universal for the whole Church united to Christ. But let the type be perfected in each woman and in each man, in the love of the husband, and the submission of the wife in fear. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth. And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. A second principle, that concerning children, since childbearing is also second after marriage, and he introduces the law as a witness. For all that we do through Christ is witnessed by the law to be both good and just, either being spoken literally or shown typically, and the pedagogical testimony of the perfect teaching is good. But showing that the commandment concerning parents is honorable, he says that it was spoken both first and with a promise, which promise is found in the Decalogue. For the law imitates a type of eternal life with long life. But God joined this promise to the first commandment, introducing four others that pertain to God; because of the honors directed to him, the recompense from the one who is honored is manifest. But the honor toward parents, not having a recompense worthy of mention from them, received this from God through a promise. 95.853 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill serving the Lord, and not men. Knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and

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ῥήματι, ἵνα παραστήσῃ αὐτὴν ἑαυτῷ ἔνδοξον τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, μὴ ἔχουσαν σπίλον, ἢ ῥυτίδα, ἤ τι τῶν τοιούτων· ἀλλ' ἵνα ᾖ ἁγία καὶ ἄμωμος. Οὕτως ὀφείλουσιν οἱ ἄνδρες ἀγαπᾷν ἑαυτῶν τὰς γυναῖκας, ὡς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα. Ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα, ἑαυτὸν ἀγαπᾷ. Τὸ ἡγεμονικὸν οὐ βούλεται σκληρὸν εἶναι τῷ ὑπηκόῳ. Αὕτη γὰρ ἀληθὴς ἀρχὴ, τὸν ἄρχοντα κήδεσθαι τῶν ὑφ' αὐτὸν, ἥτις ἐν Χριστῷ πέφηνεν, μὴ ζητήσαντι τὸ ἑαυτῷ πρέπον, ἀλλὰ τὸ τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ συμφέρον. Ἡ μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ δόξα ἐν ἀθανασίᾳ ἦν, καὶ αὐτὴ ὀφειλομένη τε καὶ πρέπουσα· ἡ δὲ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας σωτηρία ἐν καθάρσει τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἥτις οὐχ ἁπλῶς ἐγίνετο, εἰ μὴ τῆς ῥυπωθείσης ζωῆς μετάθεσιν εἰργάσατο Χριστὸς, τὸ ὁμοίωμα ταύτης καταλύσας θανάτῳ, ἵνα συναποθνήσκοντες αὐτῷ λυθῶμεν τῆς ζωῆς ἧς ἐζῶμεν. Ταύτης δὲ τῆς καθάρσεως αἴτιον τὸ ἅγιον βάπτισμα. Πρόσεστι γὰρ ἐκείνῳ τῷ ὕδατι ἡ διὰ ῥήματος ἐπίκλησις, ἅγιον αὐτὸ ἀποφαίνουσα. Ἐν ὀνόματι Πατρὸς, καὶ Υἱοῦ, καὶ ἁγίου Πνεύματος. Οὐδεὶς γάρ ποτε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σάρκα ἐμίσησεν, ἀλλὰ ἐκτρέφει, καὶ θάλπει αὐτὴν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Κύριος τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν. Ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν τοῦ σώματος 95.852 αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀστέων αὐτοῦ. Ἀντὶ τούτου καταλείψει ἄνθρωπος τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μητέρα, καὶ προσκολληθήσεται πρὸς τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται οἱ δύο εἰς σάρκα μίαν. Εἰ σὰρξ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἡ γυνὴ, κηδέσθω αὐτῆς, φησὶν, ὡς σαρκός· καὶ εἰ Χριστὸν ἴσμεν ὥσπερ ἄνδρα τῆς Ἐκκλησίας ὄντα, καὶ μέλη ἡμᾶς ἑαυτοῦ κατεσκευακότα διὰ τῆς ἐν Πνεύματι ζωῆς, μιμείσθωσαν τὴν ἀγαπὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν πρὸς τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν. Τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα ἐστίν· ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω εἰς Χριστὸν, καὶ εἰς τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν. Συνῆψε τὸ πνευματικὸν τῷ σαρκικῷ, τύπον ἐκείνῳ τούτου ἀποδείξας. Οὕτως γὰρ γίνεται μυστήριον ἐγκεκρυμμένης τῆς ἀληθείας ἐν τῷ τύπῳ, ὅτι Χριστὸν ἐτύπου καὶ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ἡ τῆς γυναικὸς λῆψις ἐξ ἀνδρὸς, καὶ συνάφεια πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα. Καὶ γὰρ ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ τὸ εἶναι ἔχομεν κατὰ τὴν ἁγιότητα, καὶ ἁγιασθέντες Χριστῷ ἑνούμεθα. Πλὴν καὶ ὑμεῖς οἱ καθένα, ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα οὕτως ἀγαπάτω ὡς ἑαυτόν· ἡ δὲ γυνὴ ἵνα φοβῆται τὸν ἄνδρα. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ϛʹ. Τὰ τέκνα, ὑπακούετε τοῖς γονεῦσιν ὑμῶν ἐν Κυρίῳ. Τοῦτο γάρ ἐστι δίκαιον. Καθολικὸς μὲν οὖν ὁ λόγος εἰς ὅλην τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ἑνουμένην Χριστῷ. Ἔστω δὲ ἐν ἑκάστῃ γυναικὶ, καὶ ἐν ἑκάστῳ ἀνδρὶ τελειούμενος ὁ τύπος, ἐν ἀγάπῃ μὲν ἀνδρὸς, ὑποταγῇ δὲ γυναικὸς ἐν φόβῳ. Τίμα τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα, ἥτις ἐστὶν ἐντολὴ πρώτη ἐν ἐπαγγελίᾳ, ἵνα εὖ σοι γένηται, καὶ ἔσῃ μακροχρόνιος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. Καὶ οἱ πατέρες μὴ παροργίζετε τὰ τέκνα ὑμῶν, ἀλλ' ἐκτρέφετε αὐτὰ ἐν παιδείᾳ καὶ νουθεσίᾳ Κυρίου. ∆ευτέρα ἀρχὴ, ἡ τῶν παίδων, ἐπειδὴ καὶ δεύτερόν ἐστι μετὰ τὸν γάμον παιδοποιία, καὶ τὸν νόμον εἰσάγει μάρτυρα. Πάντα γὰρ ὅσα τελοῦμεν διὰ Χριστὸν, μαρτυρεῖται ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου καλά τε εἶναι καὶ δίκαια, ἢ αὐτολεξεὶ λεγόμενα, ἢ τυπικῶς ὑποδεικνύμενα, καὶ καλὴ τῆς τελείας διδασκαλίας ἡ παιδαγωγικὴ μαρτυρία. Τιμίαν δὲ τὴν ἐντολὴν ἀποφαίνων τὴν περὶ γονέων, φησὶν αὐτὴν, καὶ πρώτην καὶ μετ' ἐπαγγελίας εἰρῆσθαι, ἥτις ἐπαγγελία ἐν ∆εκαλογίᾳ κεῖται. Τύπον γὰρ ὁ νόμος τῆς αἰωνίου ζωῆς μιμεῖται τὴν μακροημερίαν. Πρώτῃ δὲ ἐντολῇ ταύτην τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν ἔζευξεν ὁ Θεὸς, προεισάγων ἄλλας τέσσαρας τὰς εἰς Θεὸν ἀνηκούσας· ὅτι τῶν μὲν εἰς αὐτὸν τιμῶν πρόδηλος ἡ ἀνταπόδοσις παρὰ τοῦ τιμωμένου. Ἡ δὲ εἰς γονέας τιμὴ, παρ' αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔχουσα τὴν ἀνταπόδοσιν λόγου ἀξίαν, παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ταύτην δι' ἐπαγγελίας ἐκομίσατο. 95.853 Οἱ δοῦλοι, ὑπακούετε τοῖς κατὰ σάρκα κυρίοις μετὰ φόβου καὶ τρόμου, ἐν ἁπλότητι τῆς καρδίας ὑμῶν, ὡς τῷ Χριστῷ, μὴ κατ' ὀφθαλμοδουλείαν, ὡς ἀνθρωπάρεσκοι, ἀλλ' ὡς δοῦλοι τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ποιοῦντες τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκ ψυχῆς, μετ' εὐνοίας δουλεύοντες τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ οὐκ ἀνθρώποις. Εἰδότες ὅτι ὃ ἐάν τι ἕκαστος ποιήσῃ ἀγαθὸν, τοῦτο κομιεῖται παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου, εἴτε δοῦλος, εἴτε ἐλεύθερος. Καὶ οἱ κύριοι τὰ αὐτὰ ποιεῖτε πρὸς αὐτοὺς, ἀνίεντες τὴν ἀπειλὴν, εἰδότες, ὅτι καὶ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ὁ Κύριός ἐστιν ἐν οὐρανοῖς, καὶ