Teks -- Ephesians 5:22 (NET)

Exhortations to Households

5:22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

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Robertson: Eph 5:22 - Be in subjection.

Be in subjection.

Not in the Greek text of B and Jerome knew of no MS. with it. K L and most MSS. have hupotassesthe like Col 3:18, while Aleph A P have hupotassesthōsan (let them be subject to). But the case of andrasin (dative) shows that the verb is understood from Eph 5:21 if not written originally. Idiois (own) is genuine here, though not in Col 3:18.

Robertson: Eph 5:22 - As unto the Lord

As unto the Lord ( hōs tōi Kuriōi ).

So here instead of hōs anēken en Kuriōi of Col 3:18.

Vincent: Eph 5:22 - Your own

Your own ( ἰδίοις )

The peculiar personal relationship is emphasized as the ground of the duty.

Wesley: Eph 5:22

In the following directions concerning relative duties, the inferiors are all along placed before the superiors, because the general proposition is concerning submission; and inferiors ought to do their duty, whatever their superiors do. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands - Unless where God forbids. Otherwise, in all indifferent things, the will of the husband is a law to the wife.

Wesley: Eph 5:22 - As unto the Lord

The obedience a wife pays to her husband is at the same time paid to Christ himself; he being head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church.

JFB: Eph 5:22

(Eph 6:9.) The Church's relation to Christ in His everlasting purpose, is the foundation and archetype of the three greatest of earthly relations, that of husband and wife (Eph 5:22-33), parent and child (Eph 6:1-4), master and servant (Eph 6:4-9). The oldest manuscripts omit "submit yourselves"; supplying it from Eph 5:21, "Ye wives (submitting yourselves) unto your own husbands." "Your own" is an argument for submissiveness on the part of the wives; it is not a stranger, but your own husbands whom you are called on to submit unto (compare Gen 3:16; 1Co 7:2; 1Co 14:34; Col 3:18; Tit 2:5; 1Pe 3:1-7). Those subject ought to submit themselves, of whatever kind their superiors are. "Submit" is the term used of wives: "obey," of children (Eph 6:1), as there is a greater equality between wives and husbands, than between children and parents.

JFB: Eph 5:22 - as unto the Lord

Submissiveness is rendered by the wife to the husband under the eye of Christ, and so is rendered to Christ Himself. The husband stands to the wife in the relation that the Lord does to the Church, and this is to be the ground of her submission: though that submission is inferior in kind and degree to that which she owes Christ (Eph 5:24).

Clarke: Eph 5:22 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands - As the Lord, viz. Christ, is the head or governor of the Church, and the head of the man, so is the man the head or governor of the woman. This is God’ s ordinance, and should not be transgressed. The husband should not be a tyrant, and the wife should not be the governor. Old Francis Quarles, in his homely rhymes, alluding to the superstitious notion, that the crowing of a hen bodes ill luck to the family, has said: -

"Ill thrives the hapless family that show

A cock that’ s silent, and a hen that crows

I know not which live most unnatural lives

Obeying husbands or commanding wives.

Clarke: Eph 5:22 - As unto the Lord

As unto the Lord - The word Church seems to be necessarily understood here; that is: Act under the authority of your husbands, as the Church acts under the authority of Christ. As the Church submits to the Lord, so let wives submit to their husbands.

Calvin: Eph 5:22 - Wives, submit yourselves

22.Wives, submit yourselves He comes now to the various conditions of life; for, besides the universal bond of subjection, some are more closely bound to each other, according to their respective callings. The community at large is divided, as it were, into so many yokes, out of which arises mutual obligation. There is, first, the yoke of marriage between husband and wife; — secondly, the yoke which binds parents and children; — and, thirdly, the yoke which connects masters and servants. By this arrangement there are six different classes, for each of whom Paul lays down peculiar duties. He begins with wives, whom he enjoins to be subject to their husbands, in the same manner as to Christ, — as to the Lord. Not that the authority is equal, but wives cannot obey Christ without yielding obedience to their husbands.

Defender: Eph 5:22 - Wives, submit yourselves

The instructions concerning the proper relations between husbands and wives - the wife submitting to her husband, the husband loving his wife with deeply sacrificial love - found in Eph 5:22-23 should be understood as included in the exhortation to be filled with the Spirit (Eph 5:18). They follow both from the original created purpose for men and women (Eph 5:30, Eph 5:31) and the relation between Christ and the church (Eph 5:25-27)."

TSK: Eph 5:22 - submit // as

submit : Eph 5:24; Gen 3:16; Est 1:16-18, Est 1:20; 1Co 14:34; Col 3:18-25; 1Ti 2:11, 1Ti 2:12; Tit 2:5; 1Pe 3:1-6

as : Eph 6:5; Col 3:22, Col 3:23

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Poole: Eph 5:22 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands // As unto the Lord

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands yielding honour and obedience to them.

As unto the Lord for the Lord’ s sake who hath commanded it, so that ye cannot be subject to him without being subject to them: see 1Ti 2:12 .

Gill: Eph 5:22 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands // as unto the Lord

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,.... This is an instance, explaining the above general rule; which subjection lies in honour and reverence, Eph 5:33, and in obedience; they should think well of their husbands, speak becomingly to them, and respectfully of them; the wife should take care of the family, and family affairs, according to the husband's will; should imitate him in what is good, and bear with that which is not so agreeable; she should not curiously inquire into his business, but leave the management of it to him; she should help and assist in caring and providing for the family; and should abide with him in prosperity and adversity, and do nothing without his will and consent: and this subjection is only to her husband; not to any other man, nor to her children, nor to her servants, or any brought into her house; and this consideration should render the subjection more easy, voluntary, and cheerful: and which is but reasonable that it should be; as may be gathered from the time, matter, and end of the woman's creation, she was made after him, out of him, and for him; and from her fall, and being first in the transgression; and from her being the weaker and inferior sex; and from the profitableness and comeliness of it; and the credit of religion requires it, that so the word of God be not blasphemed: wherefore it follows,

as unto the Lord; that is, either as the Lord has commanded, that so it should be, showing a regard to his precepts; or as in the sight of the Lord, and so yielding it sincerely and heartily; or in things pertaining to the Lord, which are consistent with the law of the Lord, and the Gospel of Christ; and in like manner as the church is subject to Christ, her Lord and husband, as follows.