gengwall

I agree Kristen, although I think this passage is still instructive in how Paul views the interrelation of body parts, whether applied to the church in toto or the Christ/Church relationship. Paul does not portray the head as “leading” or “in charge of” the body in any of his metaphors, nor does portray the body as subservient in any way to the head. Many commentators make two fundamental mistakes. You point out the first – they miss that it is a metaphor. But they also too often apply English language based definitions to “head”.