Pericope:	Word Study (5 words) use studylight.org: “Lexicon”	
3 Questions or Initial Thoughts		
1.	Does submitting to someone mean you lose your free-will and/or identity?  How can you love someone who “submits” to you?  Do you lose equality?

2.  Does Paul advocate Slavery?  What is the application for Ephesus?  For today?

3.  Why the exhortation to “Put on the full armor of God”? Does Christ equip us completely with “the armor of God” at our Baptism, or is it progressive?

	1. Submit: u(pota/ssw A Greek military term meaning "to arrange [troop divisions] in amilitary fashion under the command of a leader". In non-military use,it was "a voluntary attitude of giving in, cooperating, assumingresponsibility, and carrying a burden".
submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. (5:22)
2.  United: proskliðnomai: To glue together, from the roots glue, and be close to/having an advantage. Could be a bad thing as in Acts 5:36 and heresy.
and be united to his wife (5:31)
3. Respect fobeÑomai : To fear, to recognize power and potency.
and the wife must respect her husband. (5:33)
3a. Holy:  aègiov: Holy and set apart. Given proper use to God.
4. Exasperate: parorgiðzw provocation, bring them to anger
do not exasperate your children (6:4)
5.  Helmet of salvation: perikefalaiða swth/riov
Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (6:17)	
3 Translation Comparisons(highlight variations in grammar)
bible.cc “translation comparison”	Theological Analysis (teachings, problems addressed, connections to rest of scripture) wlsessays.net	
Ephesians 5:21
NAS and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. (Ephesians 5:21)
ED submitting yourselves to each other in fear of Anointed (Ephesians 5:21)
GLT having been subject to one another in the fear of God. (Ephesians 5:21)
GWV Place yourselves under each other’s authority out of respect for Christ.
KJV Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
LO Be subject to one another, in the fear of God.
NIV Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
NLT And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 5:22
NAS Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:22)
ED the wives to the own husbands be you submissive, as to the Lord (Ephesians 5:22)
GLT Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,
GWV Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord’s authority.
KJV Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
LO Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
NIV Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
NLT You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord.
	1.	 Paul is clear that we submit to one another, much like we bear one another’s burdens in the previous chapter.  The immediate context suggests an order of service, with the concept of authority.  However, that authority is reciprocal, equal, and continually renewed.  Sometimes love is submission, and submission is love.  Lastly, one’s service to one’s spouse is a direct proclamation of the doctrine of Christ.  To treat your wife with disdain is akin to heresy, and vice versa.

2.   The slave and family relationship continues the chain of authority.  Paul recognizes that the law of love in Christ is greater than any radical revolt or revolution could ever be.  Teaching about the beauty of submission, order, love, respect, patience and fairness to people with children or servants will be exponentially effective.  Indeed, Christianity spreads through a strong knit community of slaves and slave owners who seek Christ together, as well as families headed by two spouses.

3. The armor of God reveals a continual dedication to the spiritual tools that Christ has given to the Chruch.  Armor shows identification to an elite community: one that both is given and baptism, and expressed through our learning and service to one another.  Being a soldier is both an individual laboring, and recognition that I am only as strong my century.
	
3 Historical-Cultural Points (cite source)	Christocentric Analysis (Symbols, prophecies, archetypes, and events connected to Jesus)	
1.  It is suggested that Paul respects the vocation of a soldier in his domestic and foreign duties of protecting Roman borders and maintaining order in the state.  Paul encounters soldiers in several instances throughout his journeys, and is often protected by them.  Paul also uses military imagery often. The armor of Christ would be the full armor of a Praetorian guard (elite soldier, seal team six).  
2.  Roman marriages were subject to Pater Families in Ephesus, in which the father of the bride maintains a level of ownership over the new family until his death.  Conversely, love and fondness for your wife was often seen as effeminate weakness.  Any public display of affection was considered dishonorable and lustful.  Consider Mark Antony and Pompey.  Paul dispels both false views of marriage with love and mutual submission between spouses.
3.  Slavery is a coherent and intransigent system of the Roman economy.  Most of society is built upon a certain level of social inequality.  Slavery was a brutal practice, and life expectancy was low.  Sparticus led the Servile Wars.  Territorial conquests supplied the human traffic.
	1.	 Christ is the archangel representative of God the Father, submitting both to the Father, and to his wife, the church, as he fully girds on the full armor to slay the evil foe.

2.	 Christ is the husband who fully submits to the bride, giving himself completely so that she may live.   Service and submission are the manliest things one can do, because the archetypal man did them for us.

3.	 Christ does not exasperate us, nor pays us only what we deserve (good or bad), but teaches us in patience and truth, rewarding us without threat of punishment because of his own indentured servitude.	
Structural Analysis (immediate context)	3 Commentary points	
6:21-23: encourage you through the trinity with an undying love.

Mutual submission with an order of authority mirroring the Trinity, and proclaiming Christ’s sacrifice for the Church (5:21-33)

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. (6:18)

Armor of God so that one might be prepared for spiritual warfare.  Balance of individual initiative and identification with the Chruch and teachings therein (6:10-23)

Slaves and Children should maintain roles respective to the patience and fairness of their parents and masters (6:1-9)

Whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel (6:19)

	5:22–6:9 Paul modifies a traditional “household code.” For the Christian, the Gospel does not overturn the order of life, but gives it new meaning. Each relationship is reinterpreted “in the Lord.” Wives, children, and servants look on their husbands, parents, and masters as representatives of the Lord and submit to them. Husbands, parents, and masters likewise view the ones entrusted to them as Christ viewed the Church: with self-sacrificing love.
5:22 submit. See note, v 21. Submission is not mutual, but appropriate to each relationship. Within the marriage relationship, the wife “submits,” taking the place God has given her (1Pt 3:1–6). See notes, Gn 1:26–28; 1Tm 2:13; Ti 2:5; see also p 1904. as to the Lord. She is to view her husband as an image and representative of Christ. See p 197    	
Trinitarian Analysis (describe the interaction of Father, Son, and Spirit)	

Father:  Father gives his son

Son: Son gives himself, submits to the Father’s will.

Holy Spirit: Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. 	
Prayer (Use your data to write back to God!  Tell Him your concerns throughout the week)