Craig

Just thought some here may be interested in a comment I just read at equality central.
http://equalitycentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=2439.msg27968#msg27968
Concerning Gene Edward’s book The Christian Woman… Set Free.

In Chapter 20 Gene says that authentein means “to dominate” and that the present tense of epitrepô means the situation he was addressing was “something specific, timely and temporary.” (p. 117)

“In a specific situation, a woman was teaching. She was unqualified to teach, by reason that she was domineering a man. Timothy was there to put an end to this and to do so at the instruction of Paul.

“The problem was not that women were teaching and should not, nor even that a woman was teaching a man. Rather, it was that someone was domineering a specific man and therefore had no business teaching.” (p. 117)