Don Johnson

On “saved thru childbearing” this wording misses a crucial “the” in the Greek. It is really “saved thru the childbearing”. As such I believe it is refering to the most special child ever born, namely Jesus. However, it is using terminology of Ephesus, where they had the “goddess” Artemis workshipped in a 5 story building and one of the things they asked for was to be “saved in childbearing” which was very dangerous back then.

So I think Paul is using terms familiar to Ephesians, but giving them a Biblical meaning.