The activity of learning is further described in terms of submission. Role relationships within the household and, as here, in the church are typically described with ὑποτάσσομαι (see Tit 2:5 note). Here the noun ὑποταγή (3:4; 2 Cor 9:13; Gal 2:5***) serves the same purpose and reflects contact with the tradition. The superlative sense with πᾶς calls for complete subjection. In the case of women, the relationship normally in view is that of wives to husbands.140 But in this passage the subjection
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