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gengwall

2010-08-02

“The concern that I have is making verses 11 & 12 being about any woman thus having a universal prohibition applied to any woman generically.”

But it isn’t about any woman and that is so clear. It is about a particular kind of woman based on a real example from Timothy. The prohibition isn’t for any woman, it for only a woman who is teaching false doctrine and domineering her husband. You are confusing “generic” with “general”. A generic woman is built on an archetype and the archetype here is plainly described. In addition, we have a specific example on top of all of that. There is nothing in the passage that would connect the prohibition to the women in vs. 10 but it is very clear that the prohibition is associated with the type of real woman brought forward in vs. 14.

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