“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.”
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything — the parallel: hōs hē ekklēsia hupotassō Christō ('as the church submits to Christ'), outo kai ta gynaikes... ('so also the wives') tois andrasin... ('to their husbands') en panti ('in all things').
Church Fathers on Ephesians 5:24
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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