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Didasko (teach) word study: Paul always uses it positively when unqualified

ALL The Debates Over 1 Tim 2_11-15: Women in Ministry part 12 (it took me a year to make this) 08:30:00 – 08:50:00

Mike examines the NT usage of didasko to determine whether it could mean 'false teaching' in 1 Tim 2:12.

Mike reports that didasko ('to teach') appears 97 times in the NT. When used without a qualifying adjective (like 'false' or 'strange'), it is always positive — referring to legitimate, approved teaching. Of approximately 40 unqualified uses, all are positive. When Paul wants to describe false or bad teaching, he uses different words: heterodidaskaleo ('to teach different doctrine,' used in 1 Tim 1:3 and 6:3), pseudodidaskalos ('false teacher,' 2 Pet 2:1), or he adds a qualifier. In 1 Tim 2:12, Paul uses the unqualified didasko — strongly suggesting he means legitimate, approved teaching. He is prohibiting women from doing the good kind of teaching that elders do, not from doing a bad kind of teaching.

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