Augustine on Headship in the Home

According to Augustine, “If the husband is the head, the husband ought to live more virtuously and go ahead of his wife into all good deeds”

As a guest preacher, probably sometime in the early fifth century, Augustine of Hippo preached a sermon on the Ten Commandments. Throughout the sermon, he draws an analogy between each of God’s commands and the strings of a ten-stringed musical instrument (see Psalm 33:2). He uses the same analogy elsewhere, most notably in Enarrationes in Psalmos.

As pa…