YE wives] Genesis 3:16. Ephesians 5:22. Colossians 3:18. Titus 2:5.
be in subsection] Or, subject your selves. See chap. 2. 5.
husbands] He speaks of unbelieving husbands, unto whom believing wives should be the more subject, that so, by their honest and chaste conversation, they might gain them unto the Lord; that is, be an occasion of gaining them. See Matthew 18:15. 1 Corinthians 9:19. For, such husbands seeing the good conversation of their wives, may be brought to have a liking and good opinion of the Gospel, and so to have a desire to it, and by the grace of God, to frame their life unto it.
be won] 1 Corinthians 7:16.