Should the wife obey her husband if he asks her to break one of God’s commandments?

St. John Chrysostom says, “If the father be a gentile or a heretic, we ought no longer to obey (in what is against the Lord’s command), because the command is not then, in the Lord.”¹⁷⁴¹

St. Augustine says, “a Christian husband may leave his wife without any blame, although joined in lawful union, if she refuses to live with him because of the fact that he is a Christian”¹⁷⁴²

1738 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Colossians 10 (NPNF I/13:304) amended.

1739 “The Characteristics of Loving Spouses” in Brotherly Love (Arabic) 1964: pp. 358, 360.

1740 St. Ambrose of Milan, Paradise 4.24 (FOTC 42:302).

1741 St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Ephesians 21 (NPNF I/13:153).

1742 St. Augustine of Hippo, The Eight Questions of Dulcitius 1 (FOTC 16:436).