Kay

“It might further be noted given your general form of argument that the “mutual submission” commanded in Eph 5 does not exclude the possibility of relationship hierarchy as can be seen in the commands to children regarding their parents and slaves regarding their masters.”

NN,
Yes, I can certainly understand how that could be possibility in the minds of those who do not regard the one-flesh union of marriage as being any different than the relationship between slaves and their masters or the relationship between children and their parents.