The Mystery of Marriage (Part 2)
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Introduction
Introduction
Having begun to scratch the surface of the apostle Paul’s teaching about marriage we proceed from verse 22 to verses 23-24 of Ephesians 5 today.
Having begun to scratch the surface of the apostle Paul’s teaching about marriage we proceed from verse 22 to verses 23-24 of Ephesians 5 today.
Here we are met with an important causal clause for the apostle Paul’s injunction of submission to the wives.
Here we are met with an important causal clause for the apostle Paul’s injunction of submission to the wives.
He begins to lay out for both the wives and the husbands an essential metaphor for understanding their roles in marriage:
He begins to lay out for both the wives and the husbands an essential metaphor for understanding their roles in marriage:
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
II. Christ’s relation to His church is the pattern for husbands’ headship.
II. Christ’s relation to His church is the pattern for husbands’ headship.
A. Christ is the ‘Head’.
A. Christ is the ‘Head’.
Before husbands can understand their headship to their wives, they must first understand Christ’s headship to some degree:
BDAG Definition of head: a being of high status, head… in the case of living beings, to denote superior rank…of the husband in relation to his wife
CWSDNT Definition of head: Metaphorically of persons, i.e., the head, chief, one to whom others are subordinate, e.g., the husband in relation to his wife (1 Cor. 11:3; Eph. 5:23) insofar as they are one body... and one body can have only one head to direct it
Quote: it is better to view κεφαλή not as inherently denoting either authority or source, but rather “preeminence” or “prominence” with the context emphasizing either authority or source (Harold W. Hoehner, Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2002), 739.)
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
3 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
10 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
Headship has nothing to do with being superior in quality.
Headship has nothing to do with being superior in quality.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
B. Christ is the ‘Savior’.
B. Christ is the ‘Savior’.
BDAG Definition of savior: one who rescues, savior, deliverer, preserver…of Christ!
Quote: ‘it is the function of the head to plan for the safety of the body, to secure it from danger and to provide for its welfare’ (F. F. Bruce, The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1984), 385.)
III. The Church’s submission to Christ is the pattern for wives’ submission
III. The Church’s submission to Christ is the pattern for wives’ submission
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.