Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians to perform all things with harmony in Christ. Wives, be ye subject to your husbands in the fear of God;[27] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Now, when I find to what God belong these precepts, whether in their germ or their development, I have no difficulty in knowing to whom the apostle also belongs. But he declares that "wives ought to be in subjection to their husbands: "[836]