Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Nevertheless (plhn). "Howbeit," not to dwell unduly (Abbott) on the matter of Christ and the church.
Do ye also severally love (kai umeiv oi kaq ena ekastov agapatw). An unusual idiom. The verb agapatw (present active imperative) agrees with ekastov and so is third singular instead of agapate (second plural) like umeiv. The use of oi kaq ena after umeiv = " ye one by one " and then ekastov takes up (individualizes) the "one" in partitive apposition and in the third person.
Let the wife see that she fear (h gunh ina fobhtai). There is no verb in the Greek for "let see" (blepetw). For this use of ina with the subjunctive as a practical imperative without a principal verb (an elliptical imperative) see Mark 5:23; Matthew 20:32; I Corinthians 7:29; II Corinthians 8:7; Ephesians 4:29; Ephesians 5:33 (Robertson, Grammar, p. 994). "Fear" (fobhtai, present middle subjunctive) here is "reverence."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 5:33:
Acts 21:19
Romans 7:4
1 Corinthians 7:1
1 Corinthians 7:27
Ephesians 4:29
Ephesians 5:28
Ephesians 5:33
1 Timothy 1:3
1 Peter 3:2
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