pinklight

‘He wants to argue against a plural meaning (wives and husbands) on one hand but on the other he wants to argue for it (women and men).’

Chris, by saying that ‘a woman and a man’ cannot be refering to all wives and husbands (because the context isn’t about marriage) is to say that Paul did not necessarily use the singular ‘a woman and a man’ generaly for both sexes, MARRIED OR NOT. Therefore you’ve argued for my position and against your own.

When Paul said ‘I do not allow a gune to…’ he could be refering to all wives generaly, all women generaly, or just a specific woman or wife. Therefore to be able to argue against a general meaning (all wives or all women) shows the weakness of your own argument for a general meaning.