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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it." That is, tends it with exceeding care. And how is she his flesh? Hearken; "This now is bone of my bones," saith Adam, "and flesh of my flesh." For she is made of matter taken from us. And not only so, but also, "they shall be," saith God, "one flesh." "Even as Christ also the Church." Here he returns to the former example.
Theophylact of Ohrid
He says that everyone applies intense and most diligent care for their own body, and so should you toward your wife. And again he brings Christ as an example, showing that Christ also loved us as His own flesh.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
He proves that they ought to love one another in saying For no man ever hated his own flesh. This love is evident in what happens since "love is verified when it is expressed in action." For we love anything whose powers we sustain. But everyone nourishes and cherishes his own flesh in order to sustain it. "But, having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content" (1 Tim. 6:8). …
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