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TL (563)
The hupotasso verb in Eph 5:21 is the only one of the whole series of participles describing “be filled with the spirit” which is in the PASSIVE voice! I don’t think that is accidental.

I don’t think “being subject to one another” means taking turns being submissive. I think it a description of BODY LIFE where the parts are connected and SUBJECT TO one another without volition involved. IOW, I affect you and you affect me and if one part of the body is hurting the other parts are affected.

TL (564) I don’t think its just physical nor social power which makes the man more powerful within marriage. Even though western society is egalitarian, husbands still have HUGE POWER to affect their wives.

And the tendency among egals to try to level the genders bothers me because I think there is a backlash to it. “pro-choice” for example: the desire to get rid of that part of me which makes me distinctively female.

And while the CULTURE may succeed in being egalitarian where there really is not much distinction between male and female, that is impossible within marriage (unless a couple remains childless).