Maybe, but then the parallel between the mystery of Christ and the Church and the how husbands and their wives should be would be mostly lost. I certainly wouldn't have put it together quite like that.
edit- Also a blanket command would have certainly sufficed by strict logic, but scripture has no problem being redundant:
Phil 3:1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.