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Wife, the weaker vessel?? 1 Pe 3:7.
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I looked up the Methodist, Adam Clarke's (1762-1832) commentary and he wrote,
'As the weaker vessel-being more delicately and consequently more slenderly, constructed. Roughness and strength go hand in hand: so likewise do beauty and frailty. The female has what the man wants-Beauty and delicacy. The male has what the female wants-courage and strength. The one is as good in its place as the other and by these God has made an equality between the man and the woman, so that there is properly very little superiority on either side'.
The quote shows its 'time' in some ways but its comments on equality must have been revolutionary at that period in history.
The 'weaker vessel' for Clarke is a woman's physical frailty. Not any supposed emotional weakness, or inferiority.
'As the weaker vessel-being more delicately and consequently more slenderly, constructed. Roughness and strength go hand in hand: so likewise do beauty and frailty. The female has what the man wants-Beauty and delicacy. The male has what the female wants-courage and strength. The one is as good in its place as the other and by these God has made an equality between the man and the woman, so that there is properly very little superiority on either side'.
The quote shows its 'time' in some ways but its comments on equality must have been revolutionary at that period in history.
The 'weaker vessel' for Clarke is a woman's physical frailty. Not any supposed emotional weakness, or inferiority.
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Husbands ought to live with their wives in an understanding way, show them honor, and recognize that their wives are heirs with them of the grace of life.
What Peter means be weaker vessels I'm not entirely sure about, whether it means wives are weaker physically, or that they or they control their emotions harder, but I don't think that's Peter's point. I think his point is that wives worth protecting and something to cherish
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I'm not happy with writers who tell me what I should want in a partner, or which of my qualities my partner is allowed to want in me, but I agree with the overall idea: the average man is taller and stronger than the average woman (especially if she is pregnant), so in many marriages the husband could use his physical power to act violently against his wife if he chose. I hear Peter saying that husbands shouldn't use their physical power in abusive ways. Seems like good advice to me.
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Remember too that Peter is writing in a society where the husband was legally in a much stronger position. He legally had the right even to kill his wife. But Peter reminds husbands not to take advantage of the upper hand that their society gave them.
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With studies of the original New Testament writings in mind, I think a look at the language and context of the Greek New Testament would give us a little more insight on this passage than does a reading of an English translation.
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