“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”
Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ — the transitional verse introducing household codes: hupotassō ('submit,' 'place under') allelon ('one another') en phobō Christou ('in reverence of Christ'), mutual submission grounded in Christological reverence.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:21
“But be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God even the Father; subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.” Do you wish, he says, to be cheerful, do you wish to employ the day? I give you spiritual drink; for drunkenness even cuts off the articulate sound of our tongue; it…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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