In Ephesians 5:22–33, Paul 1 commands wives to be subjected to their husbands, while husbands should love their wives as Christ loved his church the wife must submit to her husband, because the husband is the head of the wife (v. Keywords: household codes marital relationship headship submission Nigerian Christians. Finally, the church should be involved in getting husbands to understand their authority in the manner of Christ’s sacrificial love. In exercising his authority, the Nigerian Christian should seek his wife’s pleasure and comfort over his own. In the Nigerian context, the command to wives to be submissive to their husbands means that the wife should submit to her husband as one who has authority over her. Understood in this way, the passage is relevant to Nigerian Christians in several ways. As Christ gave himself up for the church, the Christian husband should place greater value on the well-being of his wife over his own well-being. Instead, he likens the authority of the Christian husband over his wife to Christ’s headship over the church.
It finds that, in Ephesians 5:22–6:9, Paul borrows the pattern of the Greek household codes, but mitigates the absolute authority of the male head of the house. The article employs the exegetical and descriptive methods. The target population is those Nigerian Christians who have the notion that Ephesians 5:22–24 entrenches the patriarchal view of marital relationship.
Hence, with specific focus on the Yoruba, this article examines Ephesians 5:22–33 with a view to assessing its relevance for Christian marital relationship in Nigeria. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution,Īnd reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.įor many African readers, Ephesians 5:22–24 indeed reinforces the patriarchal view of marriage in which the wife is subjugated under her husband’s rule. ‘For the husband is the head of the wife’: A contextual re-reading of Ephesians 5:22–33 among Nigerian Yoruba Christians
Ademiluka, S.O., 2021, “‘For the husband is the head of the wife’: A contextual re-reading of Ephesians 5:22–33 among Nigerian Yoruba Christians”, In die Skriflig 55(1), a2613.
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