does not. Context must be the hermeneutical decider, but context is frequently forgotten! So what does headship mean? The tradition passed down in many churches is that of a husband taking final and major decisions, and in the end being a type of loving ‘boss’. Is this in fact what the biblical evidence suggests? An example of faulty transference of meaning is found in Best’s comment on Ephesians 5:23: ‘Headship implies here not organic unity but the power to rule’.20 The implication for him is obvious