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Don’t get me wrong Kristen. I’m not saying there wasn’t a situation to which Paul was writing. What I’m saying is that such a situation is not confined to first century Ephesus. Paul’s instructions are universal. The mushy “situational” interpretation offered by many egalitarians is that the situation was confined to Ephesus and therefore no longer applicable to today. Such and interpretation gives ground to complementarians by basically accepting their argument about the passage.

I have not read Payne’s book so I can not comment conclusively. But from what Cheryl has related, it seems to strike a similar cord – “Paul may be sounding complementarian but that’s ok because he is dealing with an isolated, Ephesian, 1st century situation.” At least that is what it sounds like to me.