Eph 5.21-22
One of the McKays
musicke at ozemail.com.au
Sat Apr 27 10:50:51 EDT 2002
G'day Andrew. If you look at the various translations, you will see that
many see Ephesians 5:21 as the end of a section, whereas others see it as
introducing verses 5:22-6:9.
Calvin, and many after him, sees the command to submit to one another as a
separate issue from what follows.
But others have thought that the following verses show what the writer means
when he tells us to submit to one another. [In the following verses he is
then saying: By this I mean wives should submit to their husbands, slaves to
their masters,etc].
The fact that the participle hUPOTASSOMENOI is not repeated in verse 22
would seem to suggest that it applies to the people mentioned in 5:22 - 6:8,
I think.
BTW, some people have said that the word ALLHLOIS is clearly reciprocal, so
that he must be saying that each person must submit to the other.
But some writers have pointed out that ALLHLOIS is not always strictly
reciprocal, as in the people in Revelation who were
ALLHLOUS SFAXOUSIN [killing one another.] Revelation 6:4
David McKay
musicke at ozemail.com.au
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~musicke
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