Eph 5.21-22

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Apr 28 13:09:25 EDT 2002


At 9:29 AM -0400 4/28/02, CEP7 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/27/02 1:59:40 PM, cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>
><< 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)?

I regret that in offering the above comment I was inadvertently continuing
and promoting a doctrinal controversy that goes beyond the matter of how
the Greek text is to be understood to matters of more general Biblical
interpretation that are not appropriate for this forum. I apologize.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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