participle in the Greek text) being understood from v. 21.79 There is no special emphasis on the pronoun “own” in “your own husbands” (as though a contrast were pointed between their own husbands and other women’s husbands); it might be said that we have here an instance of the “exhausted” use of this pronoun, but it seems to have been a feature of household codes.80 Whereas in Col. 3:18 wives are told to be subject to their husbands “as is fitting in the Lord,” the phrase here, “as to the Lord,”81