For the husband is head of the wife even as Christ is head of the church; therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything." While he continued his comments, I buried my head in pillows, saying, "Lord what wilt thou have me to do ?" Milton epitomized Paul when he made Eve say to Adam, "Be God thy law, thou mine;" but was that the mind and will of God?
Had he transferred his claim to the obedience of half the human family?
Was every husband God to his wife?
Would wives appear in the general judgment at all, or if they did, would they hand in a schedule of marital commands?
If the passage meant anything it meant this: One might as well try to be, and not to be, at the same time, as own allegiance to God and the same allegiance to man.

I was either God's subject or I was not.

If I was not, I owed him no obedience.

Christ as head of the church was her absolute lawgiver, and thus saith the Lord, was all she dare demand.

Was I to obey my husband in that way?
If so, I had no business with the moral law or any other law, save his commands.