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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Colossians 3:18.
Colossians 3:18
Excerpted from: Self-Government and Responsibility (Part One)There it is very clear hupotasso is something that one has to do to himself, arrange himself in order under, in this case in order under one another. I could have incidentally gone to the very next verse in Ephesians 5, but I want to pick something up here in Colossians.
Submission by a wife to a husband is an act of making herself subject to. She is arranging herself under his authority, not because he is superior to her by creation, but because God requires it for the sake of order.
Remember Colossians 3:18, where it says, "Wives, submit to your husbands." Do you remember what it said after that? "As is fitting." You submit to your husband unless it does not fit God's rule, then you have the right to disobey your husband, to not (hupotasso) arrange yourself under his authority because you arrange yourself under the authority of God, but you are still subject to the husband's wrath and whatever penalty he might impose.
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