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Submission's Mutual Context
Several scholars note the command to "submit" is carried over from the previous verse, which calls for mutual submission among all believers. This specific instruction for wives is therefore part of a larger principle of humility. Commentators clarify this is a voluntary submission to her "own" husband, not a statement of female inferiority, and is an exclusive commitment within the marriage covenant.
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Ephesians
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Albert Barnes
On Ephesians 5:22
18th Century
Theologian
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. On this passage, see the notes on 1 Corinthians 11:3, and also on [Reference …
AT Robertson
On Ephesians 5:22
Be in subjection . Not in the Greek text of B and Jerome knew of no MS. with it. K L and most MSS. have υποτασσεσθε like Col 3:18,…
Charles Ellicott
On Ephesians 5:22
19th Century
Bishop
Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22–6:9).
THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELA…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Ephesians 5:22–30
19th Century
Preacher
What a wonderful expression! To think that we, poor creatures that we are, should be in this way joined to Christ by a marriage union, even by a vi…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Ephesians 5:22
“Submit” is assumed here from the previous verse, since no verb appears. The fact confirms that v.21 fits more with what follows than with what pre…
John Calvin
On Ephesians 5:22
16th Century
Theologian
Wives, submit yourselves. He now comes to the various conditions of life; for, besides the universal bond of subjection, some are more clo…
John Gill
On Ephesians 5:22
17th Century
Pastor
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands
This is an instance, explaining the above general rule; which subjecti…
Matthew Henry
On Ephesians 5:22–33
17th Century
Minister
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 dut…