Ephesians 5:22

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (Ephesians 6:9.) The Church's relation to Christ, in His everlasting purpose, is the archetype of the three greatest earthly relations-husband and wife (Ephesians 5:22), parent and child (Ephesians 6:1), master and servant (Ephesians 6:4). B and all Jerome's Greek manuscripts omit "submit yourselves:" supplying it from Ephesians 5:21, 'Ye wives (submitting yourselves) unto your own [idiois implying the legitimacy,...

22._Wives, submit yourselves. _He comes now to the various conditions of life; for, besides the universal bond of subjection, some are more closely bound to each other, according to their respective callings. The community at large is divided, as it were, into so many yokes, out of which arises mutual obligation. There is, first, the yoke of marriage between husband and wife; — secondly, the yoke which binds parents and children; — and, thirdly, the yoke which connects masters and servants. By this arrangement there are six different classes, for each of whom Paul lays down peculiar duties. He begins with wives, whom he enjoins to be subject to their husbands, in the same manner as to Christ, — _as to the Lord. _Not that the authority is equal, but wives cannot obey Christ without yielding obedience to their husbands....

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 love of Christ to the church is an example, which is sincere, pure, and constant, notwithstanding her failures. Christ gave himself for the church, that he might sanctify it in this world, and glorify it in the next, that he might bestow on all his members a principle of holiness, and deliver them from the guilt, the pollution, and the dominion of sin, by those influences of the Holy Spirit, of which baptismal water was the outward sign. The church and believers will not be without spot or wrinkle till they come to glory. But those only who are sanctified now, shall be glorified hereafter. The words of Adam, mentioned by the apostle, are spoken literally of marriage; but they have also a hidden...

Verse 22. _WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS_] As the _Lord_, viz. _Christ_, is the _head_ or governor of the _Church_, and the head of the man, so is the man the _head_ or _governor_ of the _woman_. This is God's ordinance, and should not be transgressed. The husband should not be a _tyrant_, and the wife should not be the _governor_. Old _Francis Quarles_, in his homely rhymes, alluding to the superstitious notion, that the _crowing_ of a _hen bodes ill luck_ to the family, has said:- "Ill thrives the hapless family that shows A _cock_ that's _silent_, and a _hen_ that _crows_: I know not which live most _unnatural_ lives, _Obeying_ husbands or _commanding_ wives....

WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS - On this passage, compare notes on 1 Corinthians 11:3. The duty of the submission of the wife to her husband is everywhere enjoined in the Scriptures; see 1 Peter 3:1; Colossians 3:18; Titus 2:5. While Christianity designed to elevate the character of the wife, and to make her a fit companion of an intelligent and pious husband, it did not intend to destroy all subordination and authority. Man, by the fact that he was first created; that the woman was taken from him; that he is better qualified for ruling than she is, is evidently designed to be at the he

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 momentous matter; he now urges it in a more general sense and on another ground. We ought to forgive men because God has forgiven us—all admit that; but moreover, we ought to imitate our Father in his forgiveness and in his loving spirit, be-because beloved children should always imitate, and will always strive to imitate, what is good in a beloved father. Forgiving love is one of the great glories of our Father; it has been made peculiarly attractive in our eyes, because it has been exercised by him towards us; every consideration, therefore, ought to ind

WIVES, SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS,.... This is an instance, explaining the above general rule; which subjection lies in honour and reverence, Ephesians 5:33, and in obedience; they should think well of their husbands, speak becomingly to them, and respectfully of them; the wife should take care of the family, and family affairs, according to the husband's will; should imitate him in what is good, and bear with that which is not so agreeable; she should not curiously inquire into his business, but leave the management of it to him; she should help and assist in caring and providing for the family; and should abide with him in prosperity and adversity, and do nothing without his will and consent: and this subjection is only to her husband; not to any other man, nor to her children, nor to her servants, or any brought into her house; and this consideration should render the su...

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; this is, therefore, a most comely and appropriate precept: «Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dear children.» Ephesians 5:2. _And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor._ What a path to walk in! «Walk in love.» What a well-paved way it is! «As Christ also hath loved us.» What a blessed Person for us to follow in that divinely royal road! It would have been hard

EPHESIANS 5:22 gunai/kej toi/j ivdi,oij avndra,sin w`j {B} On the one hand, several early witnesses (î46 B Clement½ Origen Greek mssacc. to Jerome Jerome Theodore) begin the new sentence without a main verb, thus requiring that the force of the preceding u`potasso,menoi be carried over. On the other hand, the other witnesses read either u`pota,ssesqe or u`potasse,sqwsan after either gunai/kej or avndra,sin. A majority of the Committee preferred the shorter reading, which accords with the succinct style of the author’s admonitions, and explained the other readings as expansions introduced for the sake of clarity, the...

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: concerning Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:30) 4. Exhortations to children and parents (Ephesians 6:1) The exhortations which follow concern the Christian family. The mystery concerning Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:32) is to be manifested in the family relationship. While before we have seen the