Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 5:23
The head — The governor, guide, and guardian of the wife. And he is the Saviour of the body — The church, from all sin and misery.
The head — The governor, guide, and guardian of the wife. And he is the Saviour of the body — The church, from all sin and misery.
Verse 23. _FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE_] This is the reason which the apostle gives for his injunctions. See above. _HE IS THE SAVIOUR OF THE BODY._] As Christ exercises authority over th...
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE - see the notes on 1 Corinthians 11:3. AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH - As Christ rules over the church, and has a right to direct and control it. AND HE...
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
This principle of subordination (Ephesians 5:21) involves in the case of wives subordination to their own husbands. The husband is to the wife as Christ is to the Church head and saviour of the body....
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
THE. a. EVEN AS CHRIST. as Christ also. CHURCH. App-186. AND HE IS. He Himself (being). THE SAVIOUR. Saviour. Greek. _soter_. only here in Eph.: not in Rom., Cor., Gal. THE BODY. See Ephesians 1:...
Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband 22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly from the truth...
_the head_ See 1 Corinthians 11:3. The husband and the wife are "one flesh" (Ephesians 5:31), and the husband, in that sacred union, is the leader. So Christ and the Church are one, and Christ is the...
ὍΤΙ�. On the figure of ‘the Head,’ cf. on Ephesians 1:22. It is applied as here to the relation of husband to wife in 1 Corinthians 11:3. Only there Christ is spoken of as Head of every man individual...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
ΚΕΦΑΛΉ (G2776) голова. Слово обозначает авторитет и управление (Eadie). ΣΩΤΉΡ (G4990) спаситель, защитник....
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE,— It is from the head that the body receives both health and life: St. Paul here pronounces this of _Christ,_ as the _head of the church;_ that by the parallel whic...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
(5:23,24) The reason is clear--"...as Christ is the head of the Church, His body" so too, is the husband "the head" of his wife. In the matter of submission to authority or leadership, this position o...
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. EVEN AS - Greek, 'as also.' See 1 Corinthians 11:3. AND HE IS. 'Aleph (') A B...
__ No Participation with Unbelievers 2 The sacrifice of Christ has many aspects. The opening Chapter s of Leviticus deal with these in detail. The sin and trespass offering seem to be entirely for m...
5:23 husband (h-3) _ Aner_ , 'man,' when not the race, and 'husband' are the same word in Greek; but the article is left out here. It is in his character of man, as contrasted with woman, that this he...
THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sacrif...
Once more (Ephesians 3:15) a mystical connexion between heavenly and earthly relationships is traced. The forethought of the head preserves the body: control implies obligation to protect....
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
AND HE IS THE SAVIOUR OF THE BODY. THEREFORE... — The words “and” and “is” are wrongly inserted, and the word “therefore” is absolutely an error, evading the difficulty of the passage. It should be, _...
(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general precept...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, EVEN AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH. — It is instructive to compare this with the partly similar passage in 1 Corinthians 11:3. There “the head of the wom...
CHAPTER 25 ON FAMILY LIFE Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Ephesians 5:22 In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and attains its finest temper.
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
ὅτι ὁ ἀνήρ ἐστι κεφαλὴ τῆς γυναικός, ὡς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς κεφαλὴ τῆς ἐκκλησίας : _because the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the Church_. Reason for a wifely subjection of...
LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE Ephesians 5:22 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been exhortin...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Submitting To One Another Each follower of Christ is to place himself under the control of fellow followers. This service is to be performed for others out of reverent respect for God who caused his...
(9) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: (10) and he is the saviour of the body. (9) A declaration of the former saying: because God has made the man hea...
_For the husband is the head of the wife. Though St. Paul here speaks of a man, who is a husband, we may rather translate man than husband, being the same sentence and the same words as 1 Corinthians...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) 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. (24)...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
I. INTRODUCTION A. For the last few week in our study of Ephesians, we have been looking at what the behavior of a Christian should be. 1. Last week we stopped at the end of Chapter 5 verse 20, wher...
23._For the husband is the head of the wife. _This is the reason assigned why wives should be obedient. Christ has appointed the same relation to exist between a husband and a wife, as between himself...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE,.... 1 Corinthians 11:3. EVEN AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH; all the elect; Ephesians 1:22. And he is the Saviour of the body; not "of our body", as th...
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. Ver. 23. _For the husband is the head_] And would it not be ill-favoured to see t...
In the following directions concerning relative duties, the inferiors are all along placed before the superiors, because the general proposition is concerning submission: and inferiors ought to do the...
AND HE; Christ. IS THE SAVIOUR OF THE BODY; the church, which is his body....
THE DUTIES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES AS SHOWN BY THE RELATION OF CHRIST TO THE CHURCH. Ephesians 5:22 The exhortation with its basis:...
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, EVEN AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH; AND HE IS THE SAVIOR OF THE BODY....
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, AND CHRIST ALSO IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, BEING HIMSELF THE SAVIOUR OF THE BODY” “For”: The reason why such submission is commanded. “HEAD”: Compare with 1 C...
22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE; superior to her by God's ordination in authority and dignity, as the head in the natural body, being the seat of reason, and the fountain of sense and motion,...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V Further, the broad gold mitre indicates the regal power of the Lord, "since the Head of the Church" is the Savour.[88] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V what r...
Ephesians 5:23 For G3754 husband G435 is G2076 (G5748) head G2776 wife G1135 as G5613 also G2532 Christ...
HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A PATTERN OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense it i...
Ephesians 5:23. BECAUSE A HUSBAND IS HEAD OF HIS WIFE. The basis of the duty is this unalterable fact ‘A husband,' as an example of the class (the article is not found in Greek); ‘his wife' brings out...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._ All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations are all ‘in the L...
FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE (οτ ανηρ εστιν κεφαλη της γυναικος). "For a husband is head of the (his) wife." No article with ανηρ or κεφαλη.AS CHRIST ALSO IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH (ως...
SAVIOUR (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
Ephesians 5:22 On Marriage. I. Consider how the earthly and the heavenly views of Christian marriage which the Apostle presents to us are thoroughly one, and cannot be separated. It was an old delusi...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
HAS AUTHORITY. Note Paul says the Christ-church relationship sets the standard for the husband-wife relationship. Wives must submit to the authority of the husbands; husbands must love the wives. THE...
_Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord._ RELATION OF HUSBAND AND WIFE 1_._For the duly--“Submit yourselves.” Subjection in the general on God’s part noteth the subordinatio...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:23 THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE. The wife’s submission to her husband is modeled on Christ’s position as HEAD OF THE CHURCH and ITS SAVIOR.
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her husband’...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Acts 20:28; Colossians 1:18;...
He is the savior of the body. In this particular the comparison between the husband as the head of the wife, and Christ as the head of the Church, does not hold. Hence Rev., properly, renders for and...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....