Cheryl Schatz

Craig #77,
Lastly you said:

The “they” in v15 could be the woman and one man, the woman and many men, or just the men.

The “they” has to refer back to something already in the text. If Paul had said that “I do not allow a woman to teach men…” then the “they” could be men alone or a woman plus men. That just doesn’t seem to fit. Here is why. If by “a woman” and “a man” Paul meant all women and all men, then what you would have in verse 15 is “all women (generically) will be saved…if they (all women and all men – or just all men) continue in the faith… Will all women be saved by what all men do? I think this would cause a lot of problems to the text and to the Bible in context.