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Regarding the teaching at issue. Cheryl has pointed out the other possibility – that the teaching of the woman in question was in private, not in public. Comps want to make this passage all about the corporate worship service. But the use of the singular points to a much more intimate setting.

Cheryl may also point out that gatherings of the NT church was different than the traditional Jewish ceremonies. Women were permitted to attend and participate in those gatehrings. And of course, some pagan ceremonies were either exclusively female or totally lead by females. So, it at least appears that all bets were off in Ephesus regarding any prohibitions of women spekaing and teaching.

The comp view is really unsupportable. In the comp view, Paul is trying to CORERCT a corporate problem and CHANGE the NT gathering to look more like the traditional Jewish ceremonies (where I believe males and females were physically separated) and even more, preventing women from uttering a peep in those gatherings. That goes against everything else Paul wrote about “church” and against everything Jesus did in engaging women in and through his ministry. It is, to refer back to our earlier “Princess Bride” distraction, inconceivable that Paul would be making such a radical lurch backward.