93 Cf. also Gal. 2:20 (see p. 368 above).
88J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, pp. 124, 205. With this use of ἀλλά in v. 24 he compares that of πλήν in v. 33 below.
89Gk. ἐν παντί. For similar phrases used in reference to Christ cf. Eph. 1:22 (ὑπὲϱ πάντα), 23 (ἐν πᾶσɩν, for which see also Col. 1:18); 4:15 (τὰ πὰντα). When submission ἐν παντί is enjoined on the wife, the possibility is not mentioned that obedience to her husband might sometimes clash with obedience “to the Lord.”
90 For wives’ ὑποταγή to their husbands see also Tit. 2:5; 1 Pet. 3:1, 5; similarly the embryonic church orders in the NT lay down woman’s ὑποταγή in teaching and other exercises ἐν ἐϰϰλησία (1 Cor. 14:34; 1 Tim. 2:11). It is not easy to reconcile such ὑποταγή with the ἐξουσία with which she is invested in 1 Cor. 11:10 or, in general, with the freedom with which Christ has set her free (Gal. 5:1).
91The term is J. M. Ford’s; cf. her “St. Paul, the Philogamist,” NTS 11 (1964-65), 326-48.
92Gk. νύμφη does not occur in the Pauline writings. In 2 Cor. 11:2 the RSV translates παϱθένος (“virgin”) as “bride” (“I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure bride to her one husband”).
93Cf. also Gal. 2:20 (see p. 368 above).