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Part II — Joshua to Revelation (1898)
Epistles to the Ephesians and Phillippians
The shortest chapter: the famous command that wives submit as the church submits to Christ. Stanton counters with the verse's own context of mutual obligation — and asks why the husband's corresponding duty to love is never preached with equal zeal.
'Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands'Marriage as one fleshThe mutual-obligation reading