Eph 5.21-22
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Apr 27 14:54:37 EDT 2002
At 12:50 AM +1000 4/28/02, One of the McKays wrote:
>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
On the other hand, isn't the notion expressed in hUPOTASSOMENOI ALLHLOIS
consistent with the principle cited in Mk 10:44 (KAI hOS AN QELHi EN hUMIN
PRWTOS ESTAI PANTWN DOULOS)?
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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