9. "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."—1 Cor. xi.
22. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord."
Is it possible for abject obedience to go beyond this?
23. "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, and he is the saviour of the body.
24. "Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."—Eph. v.
Even the Savior did not put man and woman upon an equality. A man could divorce his wife, but the wife could not divorce her husband.
Every noble woman should hold such apostles and such ideas in contempt. According to the Old Testament, woman had to ask pardon and had to be purified from the crime of having born sons and daughters. To make love and maternity crimes is infamous.
10. "When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
11. "And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife,
12. "Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails."—Deut. xxi.