Another way to think about this, is that the church is the “Bride of Christ”. Our God and Savior, Jesus Christ is the groom, as portrayed in the Bible.
Now, you would have the Groom, beat his bride “black and blue”, full of bruises, battered and beaten to an inch of her life — before he marries her...
In our contemporary world that we live in, we call those “grooms” or “husbands” — wife beaters and maniacs...
I guess you would have Christ, as the groom be a wife-beater... LOL..
Great analogy!