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A number of new evangelical Bible commentaries were published in Fall 2010-several on New Testament books that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription address biblical manhood and womanhood. These include commentaries rom Clinton Arnold (Talbot School of Theology) and Frank Thielman (Beeson Divinity School) on Ephesians, and Thomas Schreiner (The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) on Galatians. Bible students, preachers, and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription teachers will want to take note of these new works. My concern in this buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription brief review is with how these scholars handle the gender-related texts of Eph 5:21-33 and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription Gal 3:28.

Clinton E. Arnold's commentary on Ephesians appears in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription new Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (ZECNT) series. As I write this, only four volumes have buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription appeared in print, but the series has been well-received so far. Notable features of the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription series (that precede the actual verse-by-verse comments on each passage) include a consideration of each pericope's literary context, a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription concise statement of the main idea of the text, a brief structural assessment of how clauses relate, a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription visual thought-flow diagram of the passage, and an exegetical outline. Such elements help one see the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription forest of the biblical author's argument for buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription the trees of the individual verses. In considering Eph 5:21-33, Arnold offers the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription following description of the "main idea" of the passage:

-Paul projects a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription vision in this passage for a distinctively Christian marriage. He bases his instructions for buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription each spouse not on what is appropriate in Roman culture, but on lessons that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription can be derived from the nature of the relationship between the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription church and Christ. Husbands are called to love their wives in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription way Christ loved the church, and wives are called to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription recognize and follow the leadership their husbands provide (364-65).-

Though there are buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription some similarities between this passage and contemporary Greek and Roman "household codes," Arnold contends that much in Eph 5:21-33 is "strikingly different and, indeed, countercultural" (370). His excursus on "The Role of Wives in Roman-Era Ephesus and Western Asia Minor" highlights the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription radical diversity of trends affecting men and women in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription surrounding society. He concludes the brief essay by saying, "Paul's remarks to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription husbands and wives are counter to every cultural pattern represented in that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription society. His vision for marriage is not a concession to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription any cultural pattern, but substantially challenges them all. His plan is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription rooted in the creation design and profoundly informed by the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription relationship that Christ has with his church" (379, emphasis in original). In addition, Arnold offers two other relevant excurses: "God's Covenant Relationship with His People Depicted as a Marriage" and "Why It Is Legitimate to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription Apply the Teaching of This Passage to Marriages Today"-the latter critiquing the subjective "redemptive-movement hermeneutic" of William Webb.

Arnold understands Paul as calling for "mutual submission" in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription passage, but does not interpret this in an egalitarian fashion that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription obliterates gender roles. He contends that wives are instructed to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription yield voluntarily to their husbands' leadership and that the husband's role as "head" refers to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription his distinct role as leader in the marriage. He also presents a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription substantial section on application that deals with the responsibilities of wives and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription husbands to one another and discusses a husband's role as leader. If a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription husband leads his wife into sin or abuses her, Arnold rightly affirms that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription a wife should resist him. Though he refers readers to Steven Tracy's six principles for buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription determining when a wife should resist her husband (Trinity Journal 29 [2008]), Arnold does helpfully highlight the potential danger of Tracy's counsel for a wife to resist her husband's leadership when it "violates her conscience" (403)-a very subjective principle that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription fails to account well for the human heart's proclivitiy to sin (for a penetrating critique of Tracy's Trinity Journal article, see Heath Lambert's review in JBMW 15, no. 1 [2010]: 285-312).

Arnold's exegesis is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription sound, and he rightly sees the theology of the passage: "[Paul's] marriage ethic is thoroughly rooted in Christology" (399). The relationship between Christ and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription the church is no mere model or illustration for Christian marriage. Rather, Paul views marriage as a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription typology of Christ and his bride (396). "Marriage itself points to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription the union, closeness, and intimacy of Christ and the church" (410).

Frank Thielman's commentary on Ephesians is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series (BECNT)-a series with some excellent volumes, though I much prefer the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription layout and features of the new ZECNT. Given the lack of excurses and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription extended application that are present in Arnold's volume, Thielman's discussion of 5:21-33 is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription shorter but still insightful. Like Arnold, Thielman's comments are based on careful exegesis of the Greek text.

Thielman understands 5:21 similar to Arnold, though he doesn't speak of it as "mutual submission"-a phrase frequently used by egalitarians to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription deny any notion of distinct gender roles in the passage. While those addressed in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription passage are to be "submitting to one another," the submission of each "is not the same type in each instance" (374). The wife is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription to submit to her own husband as an expression of her commitment to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription the Lord (375-76), and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription the husband is to sacrificially love and care for his wife (381-82). Thielman argues that the readers would clearly have understood Paul's description of the husband as the "head" to have overtones of authority. However, the husband's authority is qualified by and patterned after Christ's headship over his church (377-78). Thielman's discussion of the meaning of the wife submitting "in everything" is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription helpful. He insists that Paul would not have intended the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription phrase to be taken literally but would assume hisreaders understood that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription it needed to be qualified. As with Arnold, Thielman points out that, though some Greco-Roman authors encourage love and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription tenderness toward wives, Paul's idea "that the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription husband should expend his life in the care of his wife... is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription unusual" (382).

Though Arnold's commentary is more comprehensive (and I would consider it my preference of the two), Thielman handles the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription text well. Having said this, it is unclear how exactly he would handle other NT passages on gender. In a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription footnote he says 1 Cor 14:34 and 1 Tim 2:11 "require women to buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription be silent and submissive in the context of corporate worship" and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription that, in both cases, the requirements are related to creation concerns. Still, he contends, "All these comments, however, are buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription closely related to specific pastoral problems in the communities to which they were directed" (375-76, n. 8) (cf. my brief observation of Thielman's comments on 1 Tim 2:12 in his Theology of the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription New Testament in my review of T. R. Schreiner's New Testament Theology in JBMW 14, no. 2 [2009]: 74). But in spite of this buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription ambiguous statement, Thielman presents a clear, complementarian interpretation of Eph 5:21-33.

Thomas R. Schreiner's new commentary on Galatians also appears in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription ZECNT series. Though Galatians does not, of course, directly address the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription question of gender roles, it includes the text that egalitarian scholar Paul Jewett once called "the Magna Carta of Humanity"-Gal 3:28. Schreiner reminds that, even though Gal 3:28 proclaims a buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription fundamental unity among God's people, yet "[e]quality as members of Abraham's family does not rule out all social distinctions" (258). While men and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription women are equal members of the family of Abraham, the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription social implications one draws from their unity in Christ "must also include what Paul wrote elsewhere," including texts that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription affirm distinct roles for men and women in marriage and ministry (259).

While addressing the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription application of the theology of Gal 3:26-29, Schreiner further considers the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription matter. The "central issue" of Gal 3:28, he argues, "is who belongs to Abraham's family." If Paul were saying that being male or female "is insignificant in any sense," then "homosexuality would not be proscribed as sin." Yet, some egalitarians still claim it buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription is philosophically impossible for men and women to be equal in Christ and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription have different roles. But Schreiner, following Luther, warns "of letting Aristotle or buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription any other philosopher reign over the biblical text." Furthermore, given that Christ is equal to the Father "in essence, dignity, and value" and yet submitted himself to him (1 Cor 15:28), "to say that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription a different role requires a lesser dignity flies in the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription face of Trinitarian teaching." In conclusion, Schreiner insists that buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription men must repent if they have demeaned women or slighted their gifts. "But we must also avoid wrenching texts out of context and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription reading a program out of them that was never intended by the buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription author" (261). Schreiner's comment is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription a reminder that the biggest stumbling block to the egalitarian endeavor is buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription the biblical text itself.

The church has buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription much to be thankful for in the writing and teaching ministries of Arnold, Thielman, and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription Schreiner. May pastors and teachers, informed by the faithful exegesis in these three commentaries, boldly and buy Prednisone pay pal without prescription winsomely proclaim the whole counsel of God.