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BTW – I’m not saying that Paul is giving a fictitious example. I am saying that Paul is using a specific example to address a generic issue. They are two very different things. Paul isn’t pulling his prohibition out of a hat to deal with some made up problem, and then, lo and behold, he remembers that Timothy wrote of a specific couple that just happen to work as an example. Paul has the specific couple in mind all along, but he begins by addressing the general issue of wives authentein’ing their husbands. Then, as it pertains to Timothy’s specific couple, he encourages Timothy that there is hope for them (and presumably some, but not all, others) because of their unique circumstances within the general realm of couples with this general issue.