Craig

In comment #164 I was attempting to solve two problems in my mind.
1. v 12 seems to read primarily as a prohibition for the wife, rather than a prohibition on the husband’s silence.
2. v14b doesn’t refer to Eve so the argument from Adam and Eve must come primarily from Adam.
So I thought I would try relating Adam to the prohibition on the wife (rather than relating Adam to the husband and Eve to the wife as is usually done). I thought it may be possible that Paul was just appealing to the fact that Adam learned and therefore wasn’t deceived, rather than looking at the terrible thing Adam did with his lack of deception. I think you are correct and it is probably a silly idea. If Paul wanted to find an example of non deception through learning Adam would probably be the last one to pick. Oh well… I’ll keep trying.