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Susanna Krizo,

Oddly, the anti-spam word is “CONNECT” 😀

I am intrigued by your research and insights on hupotasso, and by your new book. Can you provide an e-mail address?

The reason I asked nn for a source for the use of hupotasso in the postal system with the meaning, “stick (to)”, “attach” is that I have noticed a thread of “attachment” like glue 🙂 in the teaching to BOTH husbands and wives (a head and body are quite “attached”)

From Perseus, here are some definitions of the relevent words:

[upotasso LSJ](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Du(pota%2Fssw)
post in the shelter of
append
underlie, to be implied in or associated with

Col 3:18 anakonh%3Dken&la=greek&prior=w(s&d=Perseus:text:1999.01.0155:book=Colossians:chapter=3:verse=18&i=1#lexicon)be connected with
belong

Eph 5:31 cleave see also http://scripturetext.com/ephesians/5-31.htm
glue on or to
to be stuck to, stick or cleave to

The latter is in the “leave and cleave” instruction. I am intrigued that “LEAVE” is in the ACTIVE voice “The active voice represents the subject as the doer or performer of the action” while cleave is in the PASSIVE voice ( as is hupotasso in Ephesians 5). Passive voice- the subject receives the action without volition/will on the part of the subject. However, IMO the passive accomplishment of “cleaving” remains contingent upon his active “LEAVE-ing” which I suggest is not just geographical distance, but leaving behind the “empty ways of his forefathers” as Peter puts it in 1 Pet 1:18.