gengwall

Now, as to your questions/rebuttal:

Are we to think that there could be many women who are teaching their husbands false doctrine and none of the husbands are correcting them yet none of them are still in the transgression but one?

I see no reason to make that leap. Timothy gave only one example. Paul shifts to speaking directly about that one example. Any other women who are still in transgression are still in need of the prohibition, and those that were deceived into that state are due mercy.

I think that Timothy is smart enough to take Paul’s way of dealing with the specific case and using that as a template to deal with any further issues that may come up in the future.

Really? If Timothy is so smart, why ask Paul at all. It seems to me that a great deal has been said about Timothy’s youth, lack of experience, need for guidance, and need for encouragement. I don’t picture him at all as being able to “take the ball and run with it”.

It would also seem odd if there were potential on-going problems with many women teaching false doctrine to their husbands and Paul is only convinced that one can be saved (verse 15). After all he made a huge point in chapter one that one who has been deceived and acted ignorantly with unbelief could obtain mercy. Why would Paul then say that only one woman who was doing what lots of others were doing in Ephesus would obtain mercy?

Because there is only one for which Timothy has provided specifics. Others may not have the very same circumstances. Even with chap 1, Do you believe that any other woman who might fall into transgression in a like manner to this woman will automatically receive salvation regardless of other extenuating circumstances? Paul is not proclaiming either a singular salvation or a global salvation. He is simply addressing the one case for which he has all the facts.

Your interpretation stands on its own. I see no reason to doubt it as a possibility or rebutt it.