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One of the words that always seems to raise hackles and cause heartburn is the word submit, especially when we read Ephesians 5:22 that tells wives to submit to their husbands. Modern English usages of submit or be subject to usually paints a picture of a worldly master lording it over one of their slaves, treating them as a doormat, as some might say. Well, who would want to submit in that way? Is that really what the Bible calls us to do? Is that what Jesus described? What about Jewish culture and the Old Testament concepts of submit and subject to?

This teaching does an interesting word study on the Greek word that’s translated submit in Ephesians 5:22 and other places in the New Testament. But, the meaning of the Greek word for submit is nothing like the English word submit. This teaching also opens up a whole area of understanding about Jewish culture and the relationship of a Jewish husband to his wife. The concept is explained with a picture of the wife as the man’s skirt or wings. What is up with that?

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