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Additional church fathers and their testimony on 1 Tim 2:12

ALL The Debates Over 1 Tim 2_11-15: Women in Ministry part 12 (it took me a year to make this) 06:10:00 – 06:21:17

Mike provides further patristic evidence for how authenteo was understood in the early church.

Mike notes that across the patristic period, Greek-speaking commentators consistently understood 1 Tim 2:12 as restricting women from exercising authority (not domineering) over men in church leadership. No early church father interpreted authenteo as meaning 'to domineer' or understood the passage as permitting women to hold teaching authority over men in the church as long as they did so nicely. The uniform patristic reading supports the complementarian translation. Mike acknowledges that patristic evidence alone is not decisive but argues it is a strong indicator of how native Greek speakers understood the word.

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