Section 318
79ὑποτασσόμεναɩ (feminine, in agreement with γυναῑϰες) is understood from ὑποτασσόμενοɩ in v. 21. While the ὑποταγή is reciprocal in v. 21 and unilateral in v. 22, it would be precarious to regard v. 21 “as the author’s critique of the basic stance of the Haustafel form wherein one group is ordered to be submissive to another group vested with authority over it” (Sampley, “And the Two,” p. 117); reciprocal submission is a basic element in Christian ethical tradition, whereas the skeleton at least of the “Haustafel form” is not exclusively Christian.
80On “exhausted” ἲδɩος see G. A. Deissmann, Bible Studies, E.T. (Edinburgh, 21909), pp. 123-24; MHT I, 87-90. The characteristic ἲδɩος of the household codes has left traces in 1 Tim. 6:1; Tit. 2:5, 9; 1 Pet. 3:1, 5.
81 ἑς τῷ ϰυϱίῳ (as against ὡς ἀνῆϰεν ἐν ϰυϱίω in Col. 3:18).
82In the same context every man’s head is said to be Christ, and Christ’s head is God. For the sense “origin” or “source” see S. Bedale, “The Meaning of ϰεφαλή in the Pauline Epistles,” JTS n.s. 5 (1954), 211-15.
83Thus in 1 Cor. 11:3-15 the dishonoring of the man’s literal head implies the dishonoring of Christ; the dishonoring of the woman’s literal head implies the dishonoring of her husband.