Cheryl Schatz

@124 gengwall,

You said:

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.

That is exactly right! There is a sharp change in Paul’s grammar in verse 11. If verse 12 was meant to be one woman teaching men, Paul could easily have made it generic woman teaching generic men. Or he could have said generic women teaching generic men. That isn’t how it was written. And it isn’t a public reprimand that appears to be given.