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” I think your main problem will be to explain how one person can be teaching error publicly but in essence be only teaching one person rather than all.”

Good point. This is where the hierarchical view fails as well. It’s the A woman toward A man, that was a deliberate switch, that is still the clincher. And I agree that if we accept the other meaning of those two words, which is wife toward husband, the problem is solved.

It’s interesting to me that the very first time I came across this section uninfluenced by church beliefs I came to that conclusion easily. The problem at that time became the “have authority over”, which we have since learned is not the real meaning of authentein. If it were to ‘have authority over’, it would be the only place in Scripture where there was an implication that husbands have authority over their wives. This may be why gender hierarchalists want to keep that meaning even though it has been so thoroughly researched as meaning otherwise. If we use its actual meaning of the time, it comes across quite differently having forceful coercive and possibly even sexual connotations. This fits with the problems of the Temple ‘prostitutes’. One of those coming to know Jesus would have a real mixed up idea of spirituality.

The reason I don’t think it’s about public gatherings only is because of

“1 Tim. 3:15 but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. “

This is not speaking of actions during the church gathering together but about the daily activity of all the body of Christ at all times. We are the house of God. As such, it would include everything not only gathering together for ministry.

Well, I need to digest this after breakfast. 🙂