Ephesians 5:23

Verse 23. For the husband is the head of the wife. Though Saint Paul here speaks of a man, who is a husband, we may rather translate man than husband, being the same sentence and same words as 1 Corinthians 11:3 where even the Prot. translation has, that the man is head of the woman.—He (Christ) is the saviour of his mystical body, the Church: though some expound it, that the husband is to save and take care of his wife, who is as it were his body. Witham.