Craig

Mark said

Or do we now have two “submits” in the NT? In some places it means what it normally meant and its meaning hasn’t been transformed by Christ—submit to masters, rulers, God means what any contemporary would immediately recognise. But other places, oh let’s see, ah, husbands, there it means something different. There is some connection being made between 1 Peter 2:18 and 3:1, so I think the ‘submit’ needs to be the same in the two instances—either it has no authority connotations for slaves, or it does have authority connotations for wives.

See above. I think it always means voluntarily yield to. I think in the culture of the day, the patriarch did have a similar authority over the slave and wife. Slaves and wives are told to voluntarily yield to their master and husband.