Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

Let me say it again- all lexicons i have read say that the verb ‘submit’ has authority attached to it.

The Analytical Lexicon does not mention authority and neither does the Lexham Analytical Lexicon or the Louw-Nida Lexicon. And the reference I read in the Lexicons for the passive grammar didn’t mention authority but that the submission was voluntary. When there is a real authority, the submission would be required not voluntary. In the culture of the day women’s submission was not voluntary. It was only through Christianity that she had the same voluntary submission for her husband that all Christians were to have toward each other.

Nevertheless, does that then mean that when BDAG list ‘subordination’ or ‘subject’ as meanings it forfeits that authority is involved? I don’t think it does, so my point is still the same.

Once again how do you have authority when the submission is in the reciprocal grammar? This “forfeits” authority of one over the other by the specific grammar that makes the submission as reciprocal.