There are women in these hills whose men beat them because they misconstrue Ephesians 5:22–23 as saying they can. They twist God’s holy words: “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife.” They stop short of the truth that continues, “Even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.” They conveniently ignore the fact that neither God nor the law gives husbands unqualified dominion over their wives.
