However, Eph. 5:25–32 adds another dimension when it focuses on the initiating love of the head for the body in relationship to the unity between Christ and the church and the husband and the wife. In other words, while all believers are to love one another like Christ for the purpose of unity within the body, there is something unique about the love of the head (Christ or the husband) that relates to the unity between the body (the church or the wife) and itself in regard to the “one flesh” union.
