gengwall

I agree about the potential need for vagueness. Even though this was a personal letter to Timothy, I doubt they enjoyed much mail privacy in those days. Even the way Paul leads into the section in vs. 11 seems to be kind of *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* “you know who I’m talking about here Timothy”. But there simply is no other way to logically and accurately view the grammer of vs. 14 than to see that a specific woman is in view and it can not possibly be Eve. And there is no way to separate vss. 11 and 12 from 13-15. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from pulling “pink and blue” plurals (yes – I read your article and enjoyed it very much) from singular thin air.