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... as to the Lord

... as to the Lord

Ephesians 5:22

The meaning of as to the Lord is slightly different from the phrase in Colossians 3:18. Here the figure of Christ as the husband and the church as the wife seems to have led the writer to write as to the Lord; this is not to be taken in the strictest sense, as Beare points out, but is to be understood to mean that the Christian wife’s attitude toward her husband reflects her (and his) relationship to Christ. The phrase should not be rendered in such a way as to suggest that a wife should treat her husband as her Lord, but she should be willing to obey her husband in the same way as she would obey the Lord.

Bratcher, Robert G., and Eugene Albert Nida. A Handbook on Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. New York: United Bible Societies, 1993. Print. UBS Handbook Series.
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