{"id":2373,"date":"2011-06-14T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2015-10-19T20:23:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:23:37","slug":"repost-authority-vs-submission-a-biblical-view-of-ephesians-522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strivetoenter.com\/wim\/2011\/06\/14\/repost-authority-vs-submission-a-biblical-view-of-ephesians-522\/","title":{"rendered":"Repost – Authority vs submission – a biblical view of Ephesians 5:22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\"Mutual<\/p>\n

My original 2010 post crashed because there were too many comments for my blog to handle, so I am putting up this post again so that people can read the article which is no longer available because of the crash.\u00a0 Thanks to one of my readers who asked me to repost.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I received two polar opposite views of Ephesians 5:22 by email. \u00a0One was from \u201cNN\u201d who has responded here in the past. \u00a0He \u00a0is a complementarian who has commented on authority in marriage, one of a handful of complementarians who have been willing to give their views on women on this blog in a respectful manner. \u00a0In NN\u2019s email he sent me a link to his view on submission in marriage which he says is not to be mutual. \u00a0In the other email my son Ryan<\/a><\/strong> gave me his conclusions after a time of researching on his own the issue of authority and submission in marriage in order to present a biblical answer to his pastor. \u00a0I am going to refer to both views in this article for us to consider.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NN suggested that my blog readers might be interested in his views that he has recently posted on his blog<\/a>. <\/strong>NN wrote to me about the time period since he last corresponded on my blog back in December 2009:<\/p>\n

Since then I have meant to write up a brief logical clearly addressing the question of hierarchy in the instructions of the apostles on the marital relationship. \u00a0Unfortunately it took until now for me to actually find the time. \u00a0Nonetheless \u2013 I thought you might be interested (and possibly even your readership given the torrent of comments in that last discussion<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NN\u2019s premise is that submission in marriage is not mutual but my son\u2019s conclusion is the polar opposite. \u00a0First of all here is Ryan\u2019s finding. \u00a0His article starts with the thought that the understanding of \u201csource\u201d for the Greek word for head (kephale) in 1 Corinthians 11 can also fit in with Ephesians 5:22-25 when you consider the context. \u00a0Ryan\u2019s main concern in his research is whether submission is mutual or relegated to wives alone.<\/p>\n

Ryan\u2019s research:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I think source fits well with the description in Eph 5:22-25 also. \u00a0As I was studying this, I noticed that the NASB showed \u201csubmit\u201d as in \u201cWives, submit\u2026\u201d in italics<\/em>, which means it wasn\u2019t in the original. \u00a0I looked at the NET (New English Translation) notes and they highlighted that 3 MSS (manuscripts) don\u2019t have \u201csubmit\u201d after wives in v22. \u00a0These MSS are earlier than the others and are significant manuscripts, so this is likely the original reading. \u00a0Knowing that Paul tends to write run-on sentences (not to mention there were no \u2018periods\u2019 in the Greek), I wondered if the sentence might have been intended as an extension to v21. \u00a0Check this out:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026(v21) and be subject to one another in awe of Christ, (v22) wives to your own husbands as to the Lord, (v23) for the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself the Saviour of the body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t that make more sense? \u00a0Look how Paul is describing mutual submission to one another and then continuing to elaborate on how that should look in the marital relationship as a corrective to the cultural norms of the day. \u00a0We need to remember that the Epistles are often correcting specific things that are happening which sometimes we can only understand from the historical context \u2014 and this can make interpreting passages like this that much more involved.<\/p>\n

We know that the culture was already quite pre-disposed to subduing the wife in marital relationships. \u00a0Women were meant to propagate the husbands name and were treated more like property<\/em><\/strong> than equals. \u00a0What is the likely outcome of such subjection of the wife is a slave-master-like obedience. \u00a0Paul seems to actually be saying here that instead of obeying like a slave, the wife should submit to her husband in a more biblical manner<\/em><\/strong>, thus calling her out of her \u2018pit\u2019 so to speak. \u00a0The most revolutionary part of Paul\u2019s words would be the fact that he says all are to submit to one another<\/em><\/strong>, and that most definitely includes husbands submitting to their wives!<\/p>\n

And again, as we saw in 1 Cor 11, Paul elaborates the basis for the marital relationship, this time for the Ephesians as well: \u201cfor the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself the saviour of the body.\u201d \u00a0In other words, because the husband is the source of the wife (just like Christ is the source of the church) and therefore she his equal, they should be mutually submitting to one another in love. \u00a0(The church is also treated as the equal of Christ in the sense that the new person will have a new body and will no longer sin). \u00a0This description is a refutation of the idea that the wife is a lower-class partner to the husband, or that there are more important people in the body than others (ie. jewish believers vs. gentile believers). \u00a0It is a proclamation of the equality of all! The source relationship is a powerful foundation for equality, not hierarchy!<\/p>\n

Continuing\u2026 \u201c[For] as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives [ought to be] to their husbands in everything\u201d (v24). \u00a0The NASB has \u201cBut\u201d, though this reads as a continuation of substantiation for Paul\u2019s earlier statements. \u00a0Interestingly, the NASB adds \u201cought to be<\/em>\u201d (italics) which actually makes it sound like Paul is commanding the wives to submit and is not in line with how what he says is actually freeing<\/em><\/strong> them from cultural slave-master relationship. \u00a0In other words, in everything the wives should be willingly submissive out of love and not as a slave to a master! \u00a0Why would Paul be supporting what was already culturally in vogue?<\/p>\n

And finally, v25: \u201cHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her\u2026\u201d \u00a0Does this mean that women don\u2019t need to be sacrificial in their love for their husbands? \u00a0Of course not! \u00a0In fact, they are the ones sacrificing everything in first century culture. \u00a0Even in our culture, the women usually have to manage the home as well as work and make meals, etc. \u00a0This is a corrective for the men who don\u2019t participate in loving submission to their wives and families!<\/p>\n

The conclusion is most certainly an equality in loving submission one to another in the whole body, and especially in marital relationships. \u00a0It is a corrective to the master-slave marital relationships which were typical in the first century. \u00a0The \u2018new man\u2019 should be one who treats his wife as his own flesh, as his equal, not as his inferior.<\/p>\n

~End of article submitted by Ryan Schatz<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NN\u2019s views are opposite of Ryan\u2019s in that NN believes that the submission of wives is the same as the master-slave relationship. \u00a0NN writes<\/a><\/strong> on his blog:<\/p>\n

The Egalitarian argument runs along the lines of: \u201cEph 5:21 tells christians to \u2018and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.\u2019 But this is the same word used when it tells wives to \u201cbe subject\u201d to their husbands. Since \u201cbe subject to one another\u201d means that the husband is also \u201csubject\u201d to the wife, Paul\u2019s later instruction specifically to the wives cannot indicate any sort of hierarchy in the marital relationship.\u201d However, as discussed\u00a0previously<\/a>, the instruction here given is the same as that given to servants toward their masters and citizens toward the ruling authorities \u2013 it is quite clear that this instruction does imply submission to authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are several problems with NN\u2019s view. \u00a0The first is that he fails to document that the earliest manuscripts do not have the verb \u201csubmit\u201d in verse 22. Instead the submission for wives must refer back to verse 21 which lists Christian submission as mutual. \u00a0In fact that grammar in verse 21 (one another) is reciprocal.<\/p>\n

reciprocal \u2014 A pronoun that denotes reciprocity; that is, it indicates an interchange between two or more groups. (Glossary of Morpho-Syntactic Database Terminology)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The next thing that NN misses is that Paul\u2019s reference to submission is at the end of a list of things that are the practical outworking<\/em> of being filled<\/em> with the Spirit which is the topic from Ephesians 5:18 and on. \u00a0Submission then is a work of the Spirit in our lives and the application is to one another<\/em>. \u00a0NN continues:<\/p>\n

But now we move on to the instruction which Paul gives to wives and husbands and note that the apostle makes a distinction in the command given. Specifically Paul tells the wife to \u201cbe subject to the husband\u201d but does not tell the husband to \u201cbe subject to the wife.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul doesn\u2019t need to list the second half of mutual submission because verse 21 specifically and with reciprocity lists submission<\/em><\/strong> as a one another<\/strong><\/em>practice that follows the outworking of the Holy Spirit\u2019s filling. \u00a0Husbands are expected to see that as Spirit-filled Christians they are to live a life of submission to one another <\/em>just as surely as any other member of the body of Christ must live out their faith. Husbands are never listed as exempted from the Spirit-filled life that is to be lived out through submission.<\/p>\n

So why is it important for Paul to list women who are part of the culturally disadvantaged class<\/em> included as a special note for submission? \u00a0NN sees this as a clear sign that wives are under their husband\u2019s authority. \u00a0In his second recent article NN writes<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Paul gives instruction that wives are to \u201chupotassoe\u201d their husbands in Eph 5:22, Col 3:18 & Titus 2:5. Just after this last passage, in Titus 3:1, Paul again instructs his audience to \u201chupatassoe\u201d the governing authorities. Similarly, just before his instruction to wives, Peter uses this same term to describe the relationship of believers to \u201cordinances of men\u201d and of servants toward their masters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a huge problem with NN\u2019s reasoning. While it can be documented that the\u00a0cultural system of that day mandated autocratic and all-inclusive authority to the husband over every area of his wife\u2019s life, there is no mandate<\/em> ever given by God for the husband to exercise such an authority over his wife. \u00a0Remember that in the beginning God made both the man and the woman as rulers of this world. He did not give either of them the right to take authority over and subdue each other. So while the worldly system has gone off on a tangent of lordship-authority as a male right, there is no God-given authority for the husband to subdue his wife nor is there a God-given extension of authority that has listed in the Scripture the husband\u2019s extent of power, rights or lordship over the personhood of his wife. \u00a0If such an authority is culturally mandated and not God-given then she too is a free man<\/em> as a son<\/em> of God, free indeed from the worldly system that dominates and subdues humans.<\/p>\n

So what NN fails to list is that there is a turn-about regarding the worldly system when believers are transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. \u00a0While the early Christians used to be bound under a system of authority that took away their freedom of choice as the earthly rulers subdued them, took dominion over them and subjected them underneath their authority, in Christ they had become true free men who were no longer bound by forced subjugation. \u00a0This freedom extended to slaves and women who were by virtue of their position in Christ now equal as God\u2019s sons<\/em> and thus fully free. \u00a0Paul refers to this when he writes to his fellow Christian Philemon who is a slave owner of a runaway slave named\u00a0Onesimus. \u00a0Paul pleads with Philemon to embrace Onesimus no longer as a slave, but as a brother in Christ.<\/p>\n

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Philemon 15\u201316 (NASB)<\/p>\n

15 For perhaps he was for this reason separated from you for a while, that you would have him back forever,<\/p>\n

16 no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How were these former worldly slaves to act as Spirit-filled and empowered sons of God while their masters were not as yet brothers in Christ? \u00a0While their position as sons of God gave them freedom, they were encouraged to be slaves of Christ and for His sake to willingly submit themselves to their masters. \u00a0What was forced upon them before was removed in Christ, but living as a free men in Christ empowered and enabled them to freely submit to what lawfully was no longer an authority over them. By this act they would give a witness for Christ that would enable their unsaved masters to see Christ living in them.<\/div>\n

NN writes<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The relevant definition of this English word \u201csubmit: to yield oneself to the power or authority of another.\u201d This word appears throughout the New Testament and is common in other writings of the time. While several arguments are advanced in egalitarian thought as to how we should understand this word, we are discussing its specific use in the Epistles of Paul & Peter, and we can quite directly observe their use of this word in other circumstances which make immediately apparent what they mean in the use of this word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This cannot be the meaning of submission in the Epistles since Paul specifically defined submission as reciprocal. If submission in Ephesians 5:21 were to mean to yield oneself to the power or authority of another then each one would have a power or authority over everyone else. The thought of you submitting to my authority and me submitting to your authority becomes nonsense in the passage.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at Ephesians 5 one more time in context:<\/p>\n

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Ephesians 5:1\u20132 (NASB)<\/p>\n

1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;<\/p>\n

2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here we see that there is an injunction for all of us to be imitators of God. \u00a0How are we to imitate Him? \u00a0We are to walk in love for each other and sacrifice ourselves for the good of others. \u00a0This applies to both men and women as Spirit-filled believers. \u00a0The next part is especially important because of worldly \u201cgreed\u201d.<\/div>\n
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Ephesians 5:3\u20138 (NASB)<\/div>\n
3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;<\/div>\n
4 and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.<\/div>\n
5 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.<\/div>\n
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.<\/div>\n
7 Therefore do not be partakers with them;<\/div>\n
8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In verse 3 the term \u201cgreed\u201d means:<\/div>\n
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as bad behavior, a disposition to have more than one\u2019s share greed, covetousness, avarice \u2026 as a matter of being compelled to, as what is grudgingly given<\/div>\n
Vol. 4: Analytical lexicon of the Greek New Testament. Baker\u2019s Greek New Testament library<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
The Louw Nida lexicon further expands on compulsion as a form of greed:<\/div>\n
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to take advantage of someone, usually as the result of a motivation of greed\u2014\u2018to take advantage of, to exploit, exploitation.\u2019<\/div>\n
\u2026in this matter, then, no one should do wrong to his brother or take advantage of him<\/div>\n
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Vol. 1: Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament : Based on semantic domains<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Is a disposition to have more than one\u2019s share of authority so that one creates for oneself a \u201crole\u201d of authority to take advantage of another\u2019s disadvantaged position in order to exercise authority over a brother considered greed? \u00a0Absolutely! \u00a0The Bible lists the possibility that authority can be created by one\u2019s own self instead of given by God.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Habakkuk 1:7 (NASB)\u2026Their justice and authority originate with themselves<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Those who are greedy for authority will not let that authority go. By taking authority that does not belong to them, they are tempted to practice lording over others and this is forbidden for believers.<\/div>\n
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Matthew 20:25 (NASB) \u00a0But Jesus called them to Himself and said, \u201cYou know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What is \u00a0listed by Paul in Ephesians 5 that should identify those belonging to God\u2019s family? \u00a0Let\u2019s take a look:<\/div>\n
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Ephesians 5:9\u201311 (NASB)<\/div>\n
9 (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth),<\/div>\n
10 trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.<\/div>\n
11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Those in the family of God who are living by the Light should do what is pleasing to the Lord<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0So what is pleasing to the Lord? \u00a0Here is where we find Paul\u2019s list:<\/div>\n
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Ephesians 5:15\u201321 (NASB)<\/div>\n
15 Therefore be careful how you walk<\/strong>, not as unwise men but as wise,<\/div>\n
16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil.<\/div>\n
17 So then do not be foolish<\/strong>, but understand what the will of the Lord is<\/strong>.<\/div>\n
18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit<\/strong>,<\/div>\n
19 speaking to one another<\/strong> in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;<\/div>\n
20 always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;<\/div>\n
21 and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Our walk that is pleasing to the Lord is one of subjection to one another. \u00a0This is the will of the Lord and it has no bounds of social standing, race or gender.<\/p>\n

Paul then brings \u00a0us to an area where women may not see the benefit of God\u2019s will to submit. \u00a0What might cause a godly Christian woman to not want to be submissive to her husband? \u00a0In that culture before she was \u201cin Christ\u201d she was without freedom and was compelled by her husband\u2019s power that the culture vested in him, to be subject to force and his demands that she obey him. \u00a0Now that she is free in Christ, she may not want to go back to what she may see as a bondage. Submission to her may bee seen as a forced subjection. \u00a0But Paul is telling wives that their submission is not to be forced. \u00a0She is now free and her submission is not to be forced by having to obey this cultural authority over her. \u00a0She is to submit in love in the fear of the Lord. \u00a0Ephesians 5:1-2 is written for her:<\/p>\n

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Ephesians 5:1\u20132 (NASB)<\/div>\n
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;<\/div>\n
2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
She is no longer compelled to obey, but rather out of love and for Christ\u2019s sake she is to honor her husband as an offering to Christ Himself.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And what about husbands who have been used to the benefits of unconditional power and control that they wielded over their wives? \u00a0They are no longer to lord it over their wives but are to be imitators of God and to walk in love toward their wives. \u00a0How do these men who yearned for power and authority, learn to give up this power over their wives? \u00a0They are to become like Christ Himself who gave up his own power to come to earth as a sacrifice for us.<\/p>\n

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Ephesians 5:1\u20132 (NASB)<\/div>\n
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children;<\/div>\n
2 and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up<\/em><\/strong> for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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What did Christ give up? \u00a0He gave up His rights to all authority and all power so that He could live as a mortal man. \u00a0Husbands are to be imitators of Christ who Himself existed as God with all power and authority but He gave it all up to live in humility.<\/div>\n

The last of Paul\u2019s instructions directly to husbands show a giving up of their cultural authority in order to love their wives as themselves.<\/p>\n

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Ephesians 5:28\u201331 (NASB)<\/div>\n
28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;<\/div>\n
29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,<\/div>\n
30 because we are members of His body.<\/div>\n
31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Notice in verse 31 that the cultural male right is given up by the man for his wife. \u00a0The culture said that the man had the right to have the woman leave everything to join his<\/em><\/strong> house. \u00a0She came to him and she brought the dowry<\/em>. \u00a0The dowry is money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage. \u00a0This worldly system of a woman bringing a dowry to the man and leaving all to join him<\/em> is the exact opposite to what God\u2019s will is for the marriage union. \u00a0Ephesians 5:31 is a quote from Genesis 2:24 and it is the evidence of perfect submission of the man<\/em><\/strong> to the woman that God established in the beginning<\/em>. \u00a0The husband is the one who is to give up all to be joined to his wife. \u00a0He leaves and cleaves and sacrifices for her. \u00a0This is exactly what Jesus did for the church. \u00a0Jesus submitted Himself to the church and gave up all for her and Paul calls this a great mystery.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 5:32 (NASB) \u00a0This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What should be the wife\u2019s response be to such a great sacrifice of her husband\u2019s? \u00a0She is in awe of him and gives him respect for his act of initiating a life of sacrifice for her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Let\u2019s sum up Ephesians 5:21, 22 on submission in marriage. \u00a0As Christians our aim is to please the Lord and one of the ways we please the Lord is through respectful submission in marriage. There is no lordship of one over the other because this is not pleasing to Christ and male lordship authority is a manifestation of the worldly system with its deeds of darkness (verse 7) that subjugates and controls and is a pattern of greed that ultimately takes advantage of the other in a\u00a0covetousness\u00a0lust for lordship. The husband as the \u201chead\u201d or source or starting point is to be the one who initiate a sacrificial giving up of himself so that by his act of submission to come to her<\/em><\/strong> and in giving up of \u00a0his cultural male-rights he will model the initiating and sacrificial love of Christ for the church.<\/p>\n

I predict that those who cannot give up their rights of male authority will never fully understand the will of God in marriage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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