St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians 5:20-
33 is a traditional Epistle reading for a
wedding. In what follows, however, I
have included the preceding verses going
back to 5:17 in order to include the
entire grammatical sentence as St. Paul
presents it rather than picking up midphrase.
I believe it also helps to set the
stage for the mutually supportive and
ultimately apolitical mystery (known
as “marriage”) that he explores.
