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Maybe Neo should take his antecedent back one more so that he can connect “they” to all men thus “Any woman will be saved through (the Messiah) if all men continue in the faith…”

Of course, this is one of the most flagrant errors in his analysis. If the passage is a continuous flow as he maintains, it must begin in vs. 8 because the hosautos (“likewise”, “in like manner”) starting verse 9 inexorably joins vss. 8 and 9 together. But appending vs. 8 to his “chiastic” completely blows it up.

Moreover, Neo claims there can not be an abrupt shift in Chapter 2 – that the whole thing “flows”. But his very chiastic is such an abrupt shift. Whether the issue ending in vs. 15 begins in vs. 9 as he claims or vs. 11 as Cheryl claims, the resulting passage is detached from the rest of the chapter. He claims an abrupt shift from the “flow” of the chapter is inadmissible and then he suggest the very same shift, only beginning 2 verses earlier!