John Gill's Exposition on Ephesians 5:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For the husband is the head of the wife, &c.] (See Gill on “<461103>1 Corinthians 11:3”). Even as Christ is the head of the church; all the elect; (see Gill on “<490122>Ephesians 1:22”). And he is the Saviour of the body; not “of our body”, as the Ethiopic version reads, of that part of man, which is called the body; though that indeed is redeemed and saved by Christ, as well as the soul; but “of his body”, as the Vulgate Latin version reads; that is, of the church, which is his body; (see <490123>Ephesians 1:23); of which he is the Saviour; he provides everything for it, preserves and protects it, and has wrought out salvation for it, which every member of it partakes of.

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