Andrew Crawley

After Paul made this statement, he gave a brief explanation in the following verses for this statement. He pointed back to the origin of deception and how it came through the 1st woman (Eve). In this, Paul was saying that because of Eve’s part in the beginning, he didn’t permit women to teach and/or have authority over men. Whether women were victims of deceit or being deceitful, the point is that Paul was speaking of women that were derived from the beginning. Then he goes on in verse 15 to say how women could basically render their service. In verse 15 he wasn’t talking about the women who were decieving or being deceived, he was talking of women in general. Overall, we look to Paul’s explanation in 13-15 to discern what he meant.