Ephesians 5:32

This is a great mystery - The Latin Vulgate translates this, “sacramentum hoc magnum est” - “this is a great sacrament” - and this is the proof, I suppose, and the only proof adduced by the papists…

This is a great mystery - Το μυστηριον τουτο μεγα εστιν· This mystery is great. Sacramentum hoc magnum est; this sacrament is great. - Vulgate. And on the evidence of this version the Church of Rome…

Here the apostle begins his exhortation to the discharge of relative duties. As a general foundation for these duties, he lays down that rule Eph 5:21. There is a mutual submission that Christians owe…

This is, &c. More precisely, This mystery is great. For the word "mystery" see above, Eph 1:9; Eph 3:3-4; Eph 3:9; and below Eph 6:19. The word tends to mean something of the sphere of spiritual truth…