“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord — the first household code: gynaikes, hupotassō ('wives, submit') tois idiois andrasin ('to your own husbands') hōs tō kyriō ('as to the Lord'), establishing the authority structure while grounding it in Christ.
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:22
A certain wise man, setting down a number of things in the rank of blessings, set down this also in the rank of a blessing, “A wife agreeing with her husband.” Sirach 25:1 And elsewhere again he sets it down among blessings, that a woman should dwell in harmony with her husband. Sirach 40:23 And indeed from the beginning, God appears to have made special provision for this union; and discoursing of the two as one, He said thus, “Male and female created He them” Genesis 1:27;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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