“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior — the theological basis: ho anēr kephalē tēs gynaikos ('the husband is head of the wife') kathos Christos kephalē tēs ekklēsiās ('as Christ is head of the church'), Christ as savior (sōtēr) of the sōma ('body').
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:23
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;…
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