. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. CHAPTER 11. Supremacy of the Hus-band. .O-Cw CHAPTER 11. SUPUhJMACY OF THE * Husbands, love your icives, and he not bitter iii. 19. HE first relation in the familyis the conjugal, by which it isconstituted; and since this isdual, that of the husband takesthe precedence. It is worthy ofS]3ecial notice that, in all the apostolicinjunctions, the great duty enforcedupon him is Love. In addition to the testi-mony placed at the head of this chapter, theobligation is more fully expounded in theEp
. The family in its civil and churchly aspects; an essay in two parts. CHAPTER 11. Supremacy of the Hus-band. .O-Cw CHAPTER 11. SUPUhJMACY OF THE * Husbands, love your icives, and he not bitter iii. 19. HE first relation in the familyis the conjugal, by which it isconstituted; and since this isdual, that of the husband takesthe precedence. It is worthy ofS]3ecial notice that, in all the apostolicinjunctions, the great duty enforcedupon him is Love. In addition to the testi-mony placed at the head of this chapter, theobligation is more fully expounded in theEpistle to the Ephesians, chap., v. 25, 28, and33: Husbands, love your wives, even asChrist also loved the Church, and gave Himselffor it. So ou^ht men to love their wives astheir own bodies ; he that loveth his Avife, lovethhimself. For no man ever hated his own flesh; ^.5 26 THE FAMILY. but nourisheth and clierisheth it, even as theLord the Church. Let every one of you injoarticular so love his wife even as himself. But is not love as much the duty of the wife ?Nay, in our philosophy, we would antecedentlysay that it chiefly devolves upon her to be
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