Susanna Krizo

NN, I have a requests:
1. Could you please give us the passage(s) in the NT in which hypotasso (submit) and epitasso (command) are joined together.
2. Could you give us the passage(s) in which the word hypotasso is used in the context of the Christians relationship to God.

I was a bit curios to the meaning of your comment that Jesus calls us friends only after we have called him Lord. If we consider that Peter denied Jesus right after Jesus had called him his friend, it seems somewhat peculiar that the rest of us are in a position in which we must yield perfect obedience which none of us our capable of before we can be called the friends of Jesus. I.e. it will never happen. In addition, when did Jesus become the Lord of all? After his ascension. Hence He called us his friends before He had become the Lord of all and thus your argument fails.

That hypotasso is used as a military in Eph 5 is a common misconception. The only place in the entire NT in which “tasso” is used of a military person is in Luke 7.8, “For I also am a man placed with authority (exousian tassomenos), having soldiers under (hypo) me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.””
The centurion was not saying that he was under authority as all translations would have it for “hypo” means also “with” and hence his argument was that he was vested with authority, having soldiers under him who did his bidding. He compared his own authority to that of Jesus’: he had to only say a word and the slave would be healed. Note that he does not use hypotasso of the soldiers under him; he uses the word hypo which is also found in Eph 1.22 where the fallen angels are pictured as conquered enemies under the feet of Christ. The church is not placed under the feet of Christ since the church is the feet of Christ and Christ Himself is the Head of His body – the church.