Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
This mystery is great (to musthrion touto mega estin). For the word "mystery" see Ephesians 1:9. Clearly Paul means to say that the comparison of marriage to the union of Christ and the church is the mystery. He makes that plain by the next words.
But I speak (egw de legw). "Now I mean." Cf. I Corinthians 7:29; I Corinthians 15:50.
In regard of Christ and of the church (eiv Xriston kai eis thn ekklhsian). "With reference to Christ and the church." That is all that eiv here means.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 5:32:
John 3:29
Romans 7:4
Romans 11:25
1 Corinthians 7:1
1 Corinthians 7:27
1 Corinthians 12:28
Ephesians 1:22
Ephesians 5:28
Colossians 1:18
1 Timothy 3:16
Hebrews 12:23
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