john

just some further clarifications

In regards to the statement in verse 35: “As also saith the Law”

Does not find its root in the oral law. Its inception comes from Genesis 3:16:

To the woman He said:
      “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
      In pain you shall bring forth children;
      Your desire shall be for your husband,
      And he shall rule over you.”

This does not mean that a man should be a tyrant over his wife. What it means is that the Man in God’s plan, after the fall, was to be the Spiritual Head!

As Paul said in Ephesians 5:23:

“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”

Now does 1 Corinthians 34,35 mean that women are to remain silent at all times in a gathering of the Church body? No! But it also does not imply an equality in the roles of Men and Women in a Church Body, beccause the Man is the Spiritual head of his wife.

The passage simply means that women are not to be unruly in a Church body and shame their husbands by not showing submission to them in front of a gathering of the Church body! If they have questions in regards to something they are to hold their question, remain silent and ask their husband in their home!

It does not imply silence at all times by women in a gathering of a Church Body but what it does mean is that women are to not shame their husbands by acting against God’s Written Law, which says that the Man is the Spiritual head and leader of the family!

Women are not to try and upset God’s intended order and roles against their husband thereby shaming him in public!