Now, the question of a dictionary-like definition of submission. We could just look it up in an actual dictionary, but that would just tell us what G. & C. Merriam and Noah Webster think it means, not what God says it means! The word here is hupotasso (plus some funny characters I can’t get to show up). Hupo is a…
Category: Wifehood
“Submit “As to the Lord.”
Sidenote: It has been suggested in a comment that I might define “submission” before I continue. So I’m going to do that in the next two posts. First, in this post, I want to define the depth of submission (how much do we submit?) and in the next post, I’ll be more grammatical about it and look at the meaning…
Submit “As is Fitting in the Lord.”
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. [Colossians 3:18] Colossians doesn’t have much to say about submission. Paul doesn’t expound here on what submission is, or to what extent we are called to submit–he just commands it, and calls it fitting . That little word “fitting,” though, is an excellent place to begin talking about submission,…