Eph 5.21-22
Mark Wilson
emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 26 16:39:15 EDT 2002
Andrew:
You wrote:
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>I'm seeking assistance with the participle hypotassomenoi in Eph 5.21 and
>its context. The UBS3 punctuation suggests that this masculine participle
>applies to the feminine subject (gynaikes) in v. 22. Should one take the
>participle as applying to all the social subordinates from 5.22 to 6.8, or
>are there other possibilities?
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I would take hUPOTASSOMENOI in 5:21 as "be submitting yourselves
to one another out of reverence for the Lord."
Verse 22 would have an implied form of hUPOTASSW, but here the
implied participle would be [hUPOTASSOMENAI,] feminine to agree
with hAI GUNAIKES.... "wives [be submitting yourselves] to your
husbands....." (Some have "to your own...," but in English, the
addition of "own" is redundant, and poor English.)
You can also take the participle as a finite verb in the
imperative sense, but this would be too harsh for the English
reader. A command to "submit" in 21st century America I think
would misrepresent a Greek imperative.
Not sure of the syntactical validity of extending hUPOTASSW
to 6:8, but then again, I haven't given it any thought.
My thoughts,
Mark Wilson
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