Therefore Translate, certainly, But. The Apostle has guarded the husband s headship from undue comparison with the Lord's; but now he enforces its true likeness to it.

their own There is an emphasis in "own"; a suggestion at once of a holy limit, as against wandering loves, and of the fact that not only does the wife belong to the husband, but the husband to the wife (Monod).

in every thing In all relations and interests. This great rule will always, of course, be over-ruled by supreme allegiance to Christ; but its spirit will never be violated in the Christian home.

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