(April 4, 2017 at 10:02 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I think the relevant passage here is Ephesisans 2:22-23:The Scripture basically sounds like the husband is a god to the wife. Thing is, the wife is going to have plenty of opportunities to be submissive. The husband is unlikely to ever need to exchange his life for his wifes.
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
As I recall Jesus Christ was tortured and died on the cross for our sake. So while wives are admonished to respect their husbands, husbands are called upon to sacrifice themselves even to the point of death for the sake of their wives and to love them as a very part of themselves. That is a heavy responsibility for any man.
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