The marriage relationship is transparent to God’s purposes on a larger scale… no other relationship within the family so fully mirrors God’s purposes in the universe.
– J.P. Sampley, And the Two, 149, cited by Pete T. O’Brien, Letter to the Ephesians, Pillar New Testament Commentary, Ed. D.A. Carson (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), 411.
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