63 gengwall,

Even though this was a personal letter to Timothy, I doubt they enjoyed much mail privacy in those days.

I don’t think the Holy Spirit worried about mail privacy in this one since it was meant to be scripture. Although it was written personally to Timothy, the Holy Spirit meant for all of us to read it and be edified by it.

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”.

I believe that either Paul knew that he was writing scripture or else the Holy Spirit kept Paul from writing her name. It was Paul’s habit never to identify those who were in the deceived group. He did identify the deliberate deceivers.

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.

Absolutely! And good job gengwall!