Cheryl Schatz

NN,
You said:

Since you repeatedly reference the matter: The word ‘hupotassoe’ appears directly in Eph 5:22 in the Textus Receptus, while it is referenced elliptically from the previous verse in the GNT Morph (Greek can do that in a way English cannot). But, in either case the idea is in the verse – Agreed? So the only question is how we are to correctly interpret it.

While the word “submit” may be in the Textus Receptus, it is not in the Westcott and Hort, the UBS4 or the NA27 which are all based on the older manuscripts. While we can understand that “submission” is implied in verse 22, we know that because it is explicitly stated in verse 21.

As far as how to correctly interpret the implied “submission” in verse 22, it cannot be interpreted in any way that is outside of the explicit word in verse 21. Thus we see that the inspired word is a reciprocal in verse 21 and therefore it must be a reciprocal that is implied in verse 22.

Can we take a reciprocal and deconstruct it and recreate this verb to be a one-way submission by implication only for verse 22? I don’t see how that is possible.