Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Verse 18. Wives, submit yourselves, etc. Notes on the parallel passage . (g) "submit"
Observe here, 1. That St. Paul, in the former part of this chapter, having laid down general exhortations, to live suitably to the gospel which the Colossians had received, comes now, in the close of the chapter, to exhort them to the practice fo particular duties in their respective places and relations, as husbands and wives, parents and children, masters and servants.
18 Wives, be subject. Now follow particular duties, as they are called, “Les enseignemens concernans le deuoir particulier d’vn chacun;” — “Instructions relating to the particular duty of each individual.” which depend on the calling of individuals. In handling these it were superfluous to take up many words, inasmuch as I have already stated in the Epistle to the Ephesians I believe Calvin is referring...