“What Christ is accomplishing [in baptism] is that the church should be "holy and spotless." It is "holy" in that it has been cleansed by the washing of water by the Word. It is "spotless" in that it is without spot or wrinkle.”
Gaius Marius Victorinus, 4th c. — EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.5.27
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27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
— Ephesians 5:27 —
28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: