Acting Like Angels

Qui uxorem suam diligit, seipsum diligit. Nemo enim unquam suam carnem odit, sed nutrit et fovet eam, sicut et Christus Ecclesiam. Dicamus quod illam carnem quae visura sit Salutare Dei anima diligat et nutriat, et foveat eam disciplinis erudiens, et coelesti saginans pane, et Christi sanguine irrigans, ut refecta et nitida possit libero cursu virum sequi, et nullo debilitatis pondere praegravari. Pulchre etiam in similitudinem Christi nutrientis et foventis Ecclesiam, et dicentis ad Jerusalem: Quoties volui congregare filios tuos, ut gallina congregat pullos suos sub alas suas, et noluisti? Animae quoque fovent corpora sua, ut corruptivum hoc induat incorruptionem et alarum levitate suspensum, in aerem facilius sublevetur. Foveamus igitur et viri uxores nostras, et animae nostrae corpora, ut et uxores in viros, et corpora redigantur in animas, et nequaquam sit sexum ulla diversitas: sed quomodo apud angelos non est vir et mulier, ita et nos, qui similes angelis futuri sumus, jam nunc incipiamus esse quod nobis in coelestibus repromissum est. Origenes, ex Libro Tertio In Epistolam Ad Ephesios

He who loves his own wife, loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but he nurtures and cherishes it,  like Christ the Church.  1 Let us say that this flesh that it might see the salvation of God the soul loves and nurtures, and cherishing it it instructs it with discipline and feasts it with celestial bread and waters it with the blood of Christ, that refreshed and shining it be able to follow unencumbered the course of men and not suffer from any infirmity weighing it down. Beautiful indeed is that likeness of Christ nourishing and caring for the Church, He who said to Jerusalem, 'How many times I wished to gather your sons, as a hen gathers her young under her wings, and you were unwilling?' 2 And souls also cherish the body that the corruptible put on incorruption 3 and suspended on wings in their lightness they are lifted easily into the air. Let us then be men cherishing our wives, as souls our bodies, that even wives be as husbands, as bodies are restored by souls, and let there be no difference of sex, but as among angels there is no male and female, so even with us, who shall be like angels, so let us begin now what is promised to us in heaven. Origen, Fragment from the Third Book on The Letter to the Ephesians 1 Ephes 5.28-29 2 Mt 23.37 3 1 Cor 15.53