Cheryl Schatz

@169 Kristen,
You said:

Also, I read not long ago a scholarly essay about how the words “teach” and “domineer” were constructed grammatically so that they were meant to work together, as in “I am not permitting a woman to teach in such a way as to domineer over a man.”

Both verbs have the same weight just as both verbs in Revelation 2:20 have the same weight. Here Jesus said:

Revelation 2:20 (NAS) ‘But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

“Teaches and leads” is akin to “teach and authentein”. Both have one word that normally has a good meaning – “teach” and both have a word that has a negative history. “Leads” in the Greek means “lead astray” or “deceive”. “Authentein” is never listed as a righteous trait and it is never commanded of a leader to do to the congregation. In fact because it is only listed one time in the whole Bible, authentein only has the meaning of what not to do in the Scriptures.

So in Revelation we know that Jezebel is teaching error because the result is that God’s servants are lead astray. And in 1 Timothy 2:12 we know that the woman is teaching error because the teaching results in something that is forbidden. Good teachings are never forbidden in the Scriptures.