reciprocation, the way Jesus loves us, reflecting divine agapē, or is our love for God and each other simply a higher form of “need love” or eros?5 Is there perhaps reciprocity in divine agapē? For example, Paul instructs husbands to “love your wives [agapate, present tense imperative of agapaō], just as Christ also loved [ēgapēsen, aorist tense of agapaō] the church” and notes further, “He who loves [ho agapōn] his own wife loves [agapai] himself” (Eph. 5:25, 28). Indeed, marital love is unconditional