Comparing Spiritual with Spiritual - Continued*
We are continuing in the Book of Ephesians as we learn to compare these verses with confirming scriptures. Ephesians 5:21-25 begins by comparing the relationship of marriage between a man and a woman with Jesus Christ and the Church of believers with the husband as a sacrificial head of the marriage, willing to give up his life for his wife, as Jesus was willing to do for the Church, and the wife as being submitted ( hypotasso - be subject to, to yield to one's admonition or advice, as a military term to arrange divisions under the command of a leader, an attitude of cooperating in carrying a burden) to her husband, as the Church is submitted to Christ: "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head ( kephale - the head, Christ as husband of the Church, the corner stone) of the church: and he is the saviour of the body...Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it." The headship of Christ over the Church, as a h...