Ephesians 5:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

No man; none in his right senses; or no man hates his flesh absolutely, but the diseases or miseries of it. His own flesh; his body. Nourisheth and cherisheth it; feeds and clothes it, and supplies it with things necessary for it. Even as the Lord the church, which he furnisheth with all things needful to salvation.

Ephesians 5:29

29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: