Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless The word recalls the reader from the Divine but incidental "mystery" of the mystical Union to the holy relationship which is at once a type of it and sanctified and glorified by it.

of you Add, with the Gr., also: "you Christian husbands, as well asthe heavenly Husband."

his wife His own wife, as above, Ephesians 5:28.

reverence Lit., "fear," and so R.V. The fear of respect, of reverence, is obviously meant, and we prefer the expression of this as in A.V. The word "fear" is indeed continually used in Scripture of the holy and happy reverence of man for God, and so has lost all necessaryconnexion with painful ideas. But just because we have here a precept for a humanmutual relation, the word which best keeps painful ideas out seems to be not only the most beautiful, but the most true to the import of the Greek, in such a context.