Sentences with phrase «authority over the wife»

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

But the emergence of the «problem» is symptomatic of underlying changes — changes away from traditions that made the family pre-eminent over the individual, and gave the man unquestioned authority over his wife — all in the name of family stability.

This belief gives men the role of authority over the wife and children, and only allows men to be church leaders.

18, 20); and paradoxically the act of naming by which he claims authority over his wife is also a recognition of her essential equality with him.

Marriage, as marriage, was instituted by God in Genesis 2:23 - 24, but the patriarchal family structure in which men had authority over wives and slaves, was a human institution.

Not exact matches

The familial structure referenced in the household codes was that of pater familias [father of the family], which positioned the man as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

It is like Bill Gothard talking about «umbrellas of protection» to shield from harm those within your realm of authority (e.g., church / ministry leaders over flocks, fathers over wives and families and single adult daughters).

The structure of that world centered around the pater familias [father of the family] as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit — the household, which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.

What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self - sacrificing love.

The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband.

In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife» (1 Corinthians 7:3 - 4) This flat - out contradicts Wilson's assertion that authority belongs only to the man.

«1Co 7:4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.»

Central to the prevailing philosophy of the day was the idea that a free man ruled over his household as a sovereign, exercising unilateral authority over his subordinate wives, children, and slaves.

The part the Dems are particularly interested in comes at the tail end of the report, highlighting a lawsuit brought against Grimm back in the summer of 2000 by a former NYPD officer who claimed Grimm brandished a gun and misused his FBI authority after getting into an argument with another man over a woman (Grimm's date, the man's estanged wife).

While his wife is in the hospital after keeling over cooking him dinner (another resonant moment), he encounters a young African refugee on the run from the authorities and helps him find his family.