Don
2008-09-14
Submit and obey are not synonyms.
However, based on the Eph 5-6 pericope, I believe that obey can be an EXAMPLE of submission in SOME contexts, like child to parent and slave to master (today, employee to employer). Such obedience is always limited as we are to obey God first. But it is still there. However, it is not there in the relationship of wife and husband and this omission is to be noticed.