So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
'So (in the same manner as Christ loves the Church) ought husbands also (thus A B Delta G f g, Vulgate, read) to love their own (cf; note, Ephesians 5:22) wives as (being) their own bodies.' 'He that, loveth his own [ten heautou] wife loveth himself.' For a man's wife is part of his very self. Christ loved the Church, not merely just as He loved His own body, but as being His own body (Ellicott) (Ephesians 5:30; Ephesians 5:32).