Cheryl Schatz

Actually I think that if Paul was intending on giving an answer to the problem by hiding the fact that it was about one woman, we would not have known that it was one woman. It would have been given as generic all the way through if he really was trying to protect her situation from being known. But can we really say that Paul has protected her situation? We can say that Paul has protected her identity. But the fact that he said that she was still in transgression because of her deception lets the cat out of the bag and no putting that cat back in with a subtle switch to generic in verse 12 will do at all.