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To Susanna #78
I would think that it would be quite obvious how one submits oneself to a need or a law. That is, one acts under the requirements of said need or law and places those above one’s own inclinations on the matter. This is not an uncommon use of the word submit. I quite disagree about the flavor of its usage in James by the way, I think that it is most reasonable to read this passage as telling us to “arrange ourselves under the authority of God” to resist the devil (since we know that we are to obey him absolutely it makes the most sense to translate this word – which typically has connotations of obedience in this way).

Similarly, it quite makes sense to speak of “obeying” (or disobeying) the directives of a faith. As to knocks on the door, “to listen with intent to respond” makes absolutely perfect sense (in fact this is the most literal etymological sense of the word).

As to your statement:
“If you give kyrios the meaning ‘lord’ you make the man the absolute lord of the woman and you contradict what you just wrote in your previous post for a ‘lord’ had full authority over his slave.”
– “lord” does not mean the same thing as “absolute lord” which is why you had to use a different word set in English. Hierarchy means that there is a chain of authority – it is not a binary quantity.