Now surely this "he ascended" implies that he also descended into the lower part of the earth.

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ.

From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.