He is not taking back a woman’s right to speak in the assembly. Everything decently and in order to edify. They should ask their questions of their husbands at home so they will no longer disturb the assembly. Paul affirms their right to learn but simply suggests another context and perhaps a different location. Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word. It is not affirmed nearly enough that from the beginning, the Christian faith welcomed women to learn God’s truth the same as men. Those asking questions were not yet educated enough in the school of Christ to know what was and was not appropriate in Christian worship.
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They were not free to speak this way, because a wife’s public disagreement with her husband in the A.N.E. Their primary roles were domestic, so their religious activities served as rare opportunities for learning.ĭuring the worship services some of the women were speaking out – asking questions out loud – maybe even inappropriate questions – and the meetings were being disrupted. In the 1st century, most women were not allowed any kind of formal education. He is explaining how they should learn.ġ Cor 14:35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home for it is shameful for women to speak in church. Paul is not discussing whether women are qualified to preach or govern in 1 Cor 14. We understand it to mean the creation standard of male headship from Adam.ġ Tim 2:12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. The law he refers to without any citation. Paul is calling on Corinthians to be sensitive to their culture by following its customs when possible to earn a hearing for the gospel. Plutarch, Gk philosopher, said “virtuous women ought to be modest and guarded about saying anything in the hearing of outsiders” (Advice to Bride and Groom, 31), again, “a woman ought to do her talking either to her husband or through her husband” (ibid, 32). Indeed, among the Greeks, women were discouraged from saying anything in public. It must be a qualified silence.įor women to take upon themselves the role of instructors would have seriously discredited Christianity in the eyes of the Greek world at the time.
He has already plainly said that women can prophesy and pray in church. What kind of silence? Absolute? Qualified? The Scriptures honor women.ġ Cor 14:34 Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak but they are to be submissive, as the law also says. Who did Jesus appear to first after He was raised from the dead? The women. Who did Jesus reveal He was the Messiah to first? Woman at the well. Who brought the Christ-child into the world to save it? Mary. Who led Israel when they had no king? Deborah. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE DECENTLY AND IN ORDER
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