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The apostle, entering upon an exhortation to relative duties, begins first with that which wives owe to their husbands to whom they are married, by reason this relation is the first in nature, and the fountain whence the rest do flow, Gen_2:22 Psa_127:3 128:3 Pro_5:15,16. That which he requires is self-submission in every thing, see Eph_5:22, expressing a subjection with reverence, Eph_5:24,33 1Pe_3:1. The God of order made the woman inferior, Gen_2:18,22 3:16 1Co_11:7-9 1Ti_2:13 Tit_2:5; yet her submission is not to be servile, as that of a handmaid, but conjugal, as of a meet companion.
As it is fit in the Lord; suitable to God’s institution, in a becoming manner, agreeable to the mind of Christ, Act_5:29 1Pe_3:7.