Listen to what “headship” means: For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His Body, and is Himself its Savior. As the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.
Notice that after saying “the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church,” he immediately says that the Church is His Body, and He is Himself its Savior. It is the head that upholds the well being of the body. In his other epistles Paul has already laid the foundations of marital love, and has assigned to husband and wife each his proper place: to the husband one of leader and provider, and to the wife one of submission. Therefore, as the Church is subject to Christ—and the Church, remember, consists of both husbands and wives— so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands, as to God - John Chrysostom, Hom. 20, on Ephesians 5:22-23#Patristics #Marriage
a man is formed in the image of God, and woman is not. But she is the image of God by virtue of the man, because God created one human being, so that just as all things come from the one God, similarly all human beings would come from the one human. The consequence would be that one visible man would bear on earth the image of the one invisible God, so that the one God would be seen to maintain the authority of the single originating principle, to the consternation of the Devil. - Ambrosiaster, Comm. I Cor., 11: 5–7. 2#patristics #imagodei
Although man and woman are one in their existent nature [una substantia], nevertheless, because the man is the head of the woman, it is taught that he is to be given precedence, being greater through the cause and rationale, not by reason of his existent nature itself. So the woman is inferior to man, for she is a part of him, for the origin of woman is man. For she is created out of him, and because of this a woman is seen to be under an obligation to her husband, to be subjected to his rule. - Ambrosiaster, Comm. I Cor., 11: 5. 1#Patristics #imagodei