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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-12

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Paul’s teaching in 1Ti 2:11-15 are specific to a wife teaching false doctrine and a husband who is informed but silent—likely an elder who refuses to stop the false teaching b/c it’s hi...

@graceforprize @ComeBack_Yeshua @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Paul’s teaching in 1Ti 2:11-15 are specific to a wife teaching false doctrine and a husband who is informed but silent—likely an elder

1Ti 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-04

@Keith83361 @UndeadOrlan @smashbaals No I never said it is less than other scrip

@Keith83361 @UndeadOrlan @smashbaals No I never said it is less than other scripture! I said exactly what it says “to Timothy” (1Ti 1:2). We can learn from it. But why didn’t Paul say “to the church a

1Ti 1:2 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-29

@Grump_Old_Man @Peacemaker811 Paul didn’t need to name her as Paul spent years in Ephesus and related a situation he left unaddressed for Timothy and in his personal letter he only needed to provide enough information for Timothy to clearly identify ...

@Grump_Old_Man @Peacemaker811 Paul didn’t need to name her as Paul spent years in Ephesus and related a situation he left unaddressed for Timothy and in his personal letter he only needed to provide e

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-24

@BornAgainMissy Why anyone thinks that Paul’s purpose was to stop the teaching of truth from one half of the body to the other half is beyond me. Paul’s instruction in his personal letter to Timothy was to remain in Ephesus to stop certain ones from...

@BornAgainMissy Why anyone thinks that Paul’s purpose was to stop the teaching of truth from one half of the body to the other half is beyond me. Paul’s instruction in his personal letter to Timothy

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explained in his personal letter to Timothy that he left him in Ephesus to stop false teachers, not so that he would instruct half the church not to teach truth to the other half. You are misreading the text by not cons...

@TheCoolhand1 @smashbaals Paul explained in his personal letter to Timothy that he left him in Ephesus to stop false teachers, not so that he would instruct half the church not to teach truth to the o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@Vysler @smashbaals That passage is in the context of Paul writing a personal letter to Timothy telling him he was leaving him in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching false doctrine not to stop half the church from teaching the truth to the o...

@Vysler @smashbaals That passage is in the context of Paul writing a personal letter to Timothy telling him he was leaving him in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching false doctrine not to sto

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-22

@B_______Q_____ @rightresponsem Really? So in context of a letter where Paul has

@B_______Q_____ @rightresponsem Really? So in context of a letter where Paul has stated he left Timothy in Ephesus to stop *false* teaching, somehow you’ve crossed your wires into thinking this is abo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-03

Paul was clearly *both* an apostle and an overseer. His letters are pastoral (esp 1Co, 2Co and Gal), he ministered in Ephesus for ~3 yrs (Ac 20:31). He was not there merely to plant a church and appoint elders, but spent significant time shepherding,...

Paul was clearly *both* an apostle and an overseer. His letters are pastoral (esp 1Co, 2Co and Gal), he ministered in Ephesus for ~3 yrs (Ac 20:31). He was not there merely to plant a church and appoi

Ac 20:31 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace The context is that Paul is writing a personal letter to Timothy instructing him to remain in Ephesus to stop certain ones from teaching false doctrine and to set things in order to help prevent this problem. ...

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace The context is that Paul is writing a personal letter to Timothy instructing him to remain in Ephesus to stop certain ones from teaching false doctrine and to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-20

@carol66944 Paul was not writing to Timothy? Where does Paul say "to the church

@carol66944 Paul was not writing to Timothy? Where does Paul say "to the church at Ephesus"?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-26

@ronhenzel Thanks for the history of the Romans. Just wondering…did the church

@ronhenzel Thanks for the history of the Romans. Just wondering…did the church of Ephesus consist in the majority of Romans? What about Greeks and Jews?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If Paul is using Eve prototypically, then the same description of Eve's deception can apply to this specific wife teaching heresy in Ephesus. This solves the awkwardness of using 'the woman' to referred to Eve who is alr...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If Paul is using Eve prototypically, then the same description of Eve's deception can apply to this specific wife teaching heresy in Ephesus. This solves the awkwardness

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-09

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT But that use by Paul is genius *because* of the ties to Ev

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT But that use by Paul is genius *because* of the ties to Eve—it links the specific woman in Ephesus prototypically with Eve in a lightly veiled manner. We need only to consider wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-08

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT So you don’t think it’s reasonable that Paul is using Eve

@MargMowczko @KaeleyT So you don’t think it’s reasonable that Paul is using Eve as a prototype for this specific wife who is teaching in Ephesus? It seems to make sense of the details. Is there a reas

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@RushiXmakima @Unashamed_Chuck I know this is a popular opinion, but I’m not convinced of it (yet). I see Paul using specific wording to point out a specific wife and husband in the church at Ephesus and relating what is happening back to the fall in...

@RushiXmakima @Unashamed_Chuck I know this is a popular opinion, but I’m not convinced of it (yet). I see Paul using specific wording to point out a specific wife and husband in the church at Ephesus

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-22

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft 1Co 7 definitely speaks of mutual authority over each other’s body and not abstaining for too long. But I honestly don’t see knowing what the specific false teaching in Ephesus was important or Paul would have mentio...

@JollyStine @AVER735 @BenZeisloft 1Co 7 definitely speaks of mutual authority over each other’s body and not abstaining for too long. But I honestly don’t see knowing what the specific false teaching

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-20

@B_______Q_____ @WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Paul uses Eve as a prototype of this situ

@B_______Q_____ @WrigsFL2 @BenZeisloft Paul uses Eve as a prototype of this situation in Ephesus. Eve was deceived and not Adam, this being because of the time sequence order of creation. https://t.co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

@Robert_S_Morley @OpenlyReasoned @DST_QA Paul was correcting a wayward female trait local to Ephesus?? So it’s unique to Ephesian married women to ask questions in church (the text doesn’t say they were doing this, it’s a guess)? Why don’t you see P...

@Robert_S_Morley @OpenlyReasoned @DST_QA Paul was correcting a wayward female trait local to Ephesus?? So it’s unique to Ephesian married women to ask questions in church (the text doesn’t say they we

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

@Flyoverland22 "I asked egalitarians a few times to blank stares this question: What does obedience or disobedience to this passage look like?" Not allowing someone to teach false doctrine like Timothy was to stop this specific deceived wife in Ephe...

@Flyoverland22 "I asked egalitarians a few times to blank stares this question: What does obedience or disobedience to this passage look like?" Not allowing someone to teach false doctrine like Timot

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-14

@JoeAdrian256 @Pathfinder4545 It doesn’t forbid it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching not godly women from teaching the truth. You can read yes, but this is about reading in context and making sense of all the details including the ...

@JoeAdrian256 @Pathfinder4545 It doesn’t forbid it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teaching not godly women from teaching the truth. You can read yes, but this is about reading in context

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-10

@BigYehudah @riemersonck It does apply—to anyone including women like this parti

@BigYehudah @riemersonck It does apply—to anyone including women like this particular one in Ephesus who was teaching serious false doctrine. False teaching was what Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to st

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-09

@humbledoulos Paul indicates that his purpose in writing this personal letter to Timothy (in which we can all learn many things) was "to remain on at Ephesus so that you would instruct certain people not to teach strange doctrines" (1Ti 1:3). Later ...

@humbledoulos Paul indicates that his purpose in writing this personal letter to Timothy (in which we can all learn many things) was "to remain on at Ephesus so that you would instruct certain people

1Ti 1:3 commentary
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-09

@JamesPelton18 Except Paul is refuting those he is quoting from the letter the C

@JamesPelton18 Except Paul is refuting those he is quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote. And in 1Ti 2:11-12, Paul is dealing with a specific wife in Ephesus who is teaching false doctrine.

1Ti 2:11-12 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-06

@BahBahBased @zie95776 @MikeWingerii Paul used the creation account as prototypi

@BahBahBased @zie95776 @MikeWingerii Paul used the creation account as prototypical of a similar happening in Ephesus with this couple. Keep trying.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-05

@3GNRTX Rather, this is in the context of Paul leaving Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teachers, deal with the consequences of the false teaching and setup the church to better manage false teaching. That statement wasn’t Paul instructing Timothy t...

@3GNRTX Rather, this is in the context of Paul leaving Timothy in Ephesus to stop false teachers, deal with the consequences of the false teaching and setup the church to better manage false teaching.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-30

This is a misreading of 1Ti 2:13-14—Paul is using Adam and Eve as prototypes of a specific couple in Ephesus. Why? Because the woman was ignorant and deceived and as Paul outlined in 1Ti 1, those who are ignorant receive mercy meaning not naming them...

This is a misreading of 1Ti 2:13-14—Paul is using Adam and Eve as prototypes of a specific couple in Ephesus. Why? Because the woman was ignorant and deceived and as Paul outlined in 1Ti 1, those who

1Ti 2:13-14 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-04

@carol66944 Right, the problem isn’t with the women in general. Are you suggesti

@carol66944 Right, the problem isn’t with the women in general. Are you suggesting that if there is in fact a false teacher in Ephesus that Paul hadn’t dealt with that this means Paul or Timothy hasti

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-21

@MythosMayhem @ronhenzel It says “saved through THE childbearing”—it is a definite noun, not a verb. Given that in the context, Paul is referring to Eve and connecting her situation as a prototype of a specific wife teaching heresy in Ephesus, Paul ...

@MythosMayhem @ronhenzel It says “saved through THE childbearing”—it is a definite noun, not a verb. Given that in the context, Paul is referring to Eve and connecting her situation as a prototype of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@Whitehorse1255 @CherylSchatz @MikeWingerii @soothkeep @JoelFKorytko @The_Idol_Killer @ProvisionistP @HwsEleutheroi @Soteriology101 @1984_nate We all agree with the syntax in this verse. What we disagree with is whether “A woman/wife” is a generic wo...

@Whitehorse1255 @CherylSchatz @MikeWingerii @soothkeep @JoelFKorytko @The_Idol_Killer @ProvisionistP @HwsEleutheroi @Soteriology101 @1984_nate We all agree with the syntax in this verse. What we disag

1Ti 1:2 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel However, this is not “head speech”, it is instruction-to-Timothy speech which is the one who is commissioned to stop the false teaching and the false teachers at Ephesus. Would you at least grant that I have a grammat...

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel However, this is not “head speech”, it is instruction-to-Timothy speech which is the one who is commissioned to stop the false teaching and the false teachers at Ephesu

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@SwordMasterPub @Trish_NI How do you know that? Peter said he was an elder (1Pe

@SwordMasterPub @Trish_NI How do you know that? Peter said he was an elder (1Pe 5:1). Paul oversaw multiple churches, writing letters, making sure that they were healthy, etc. He remained in Ephesus f

1Pe 5:1 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@EkIesou @ronhenzel The definite article is in v14 showing that the previous use

@EkIesou @ronhenzel The definite article is in v14 showing that the previous use of the anarthrous is meant to be specific and not general. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to instruct “specific people”

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-17

@johnmarkallen @pastherandie @peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Apollos came from Alexandria. He was not part of the group of 12 in Ephesus. There is clearly a difference bet...

@johnmarkallen @pastherandie @peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Apollos came from Alexandria. He was not part of the group o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @peace_got @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Hmm. I don’t see that. I see Paul using the Adam and Eve as prototypes of this particular married couple in Ephesus. This see...

@Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @peace_got @AlistairRobert7 @JollyStine @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Hmm. I don’t see that. I see Paul using the Adam and Eve as prototypes of t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Yes, that too. But he is referring

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii Yes, that too. But he is referring to certain ones who have strayed as this is why he left him behind in Ephesus⎯to deal with the false teachers.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii ...which immediately follows Paul's clear intent on why he wrote this personal letter to Timothy: “Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, to remain on at Ephesus so that you would instruct ce...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii ...which immediately follows Paul's clear intent on why he wrote this personal letter to Timothy: “Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@MikedAlamo @MikeWingerii Where’s the command? 1Ti 2:12? That verse doesn’t even

@MikedAlamo @MikeWingerii Where’s the command? 1Ti 2:12? That verse doesn’t even have an imperative, speaks in the singular, and makes much more sense of a particular woman teaching false doctrine in

1Ti 2:12 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-13

@JollyStine @peace_got @JoanBandy @CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Just wondering, you think that the single young Timothy was asked by Paul to go up to a married woman and tell her to have s3x with her husband (who was silent)? That’s wha...

@JollyStine @peace_got @JoanBandy @CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Just wondering, you think that the single young Timothy was asked by Paul to go up to a married woman and tell her to have

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-12

@William34772026 That's close but doesn't quite fit all the details. Paul says in 1Ti 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct "certain people" not to teach "strange doctrines." The grammar in 1Ti 2:12 is singular and v14's "the w...

@William34772026 That's close but doesn't quite fit all the details. Paul says in 1Ti 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct "certain people" not to teach "strange doctrines." Th

1Ti 1:3 1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@NarnianAttorney You are presuming the complementarian reading of a few passages. There is no prohibition of female pastors for one, and 1Ti 2:12 is dealing with false teaching from a specific woman in Ephesus whom Paul was not naming to protect her;...

@NarnianAttorney You are presuming the complementarian reading of a few passages. There is no prohibition of female pastors for one, and 1Ti 2:12 is dealing with false teaching from a specific woman i

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-10

@NotTheBaptizer @KimberleeJayneW @deadtosin610 I get it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching strange doctrines. It’s certainly a thing. But the idea that a godly woman can teach men or not is not one of those things Paul...

@NotTheBaptizer @KimberleeJayneW @deadtosin610 I get it. Paul left Timothy in Ephesus to stop certain people from teaching strange doctrines. It’s certainly a thing. But the idea that a godly woman ca

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-09

@JollyStine @deadtosin610 It seems Priscilla and Aquila functioned as apostles t

@JollyStine @deadtosin610 It seems Priscilla and Aquila functioned as apostles traveling to help support the church at Ephesus as it was established, though they weren't explicitly called this.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-09

@JollyStine @deadtosin610 Paul also addresses the elders in Ephesus in Ac 20:17-

@JollyStine @deadtosin610 Paul also addresses the elders in Ephesus in Ac 20:17-35, but we don't know who they all are. He doesn't call them men.

Ac 20:17-35 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-02

@ReformedCaio @CherylSchatz @KaeleyT @MikeWingerii The issue in 1Ti 2:11-15 is n

@ReformedCaio @CherylSchatz @KaeleyT @MikeWingerii The issue in 1Ti 2:11-15 is not a cultural or societal issue. It has to do with a specific woman teaching false doctrine in Ephesus. I give a high le

1Ti 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-27

@Revelation_14_7 The letter of 1 Timothy isn’t to “men” it’s to Timothy about ho

@Revelation_14_7 The letter of 1 Timothy isn’t to “men” it’s to Timothy about how he should act in dealing with the false teaching problem in Ephesus.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@RovingWolv @LutheranLifter "Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, to remain on at Ephesus so that you would instruct ***certain people*** not to teach ***strange doctrines,*** nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, wh...

@RovingWolv @LutheranLifter "Just as I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, to remain on at Ephesus so that you would instruct ***certain people*** not to teach ***strange doctrines,*** nor to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@frankly_will @LutheranLifter It was the Apostle Paul in his personal letter addressed to Timothy urging him to remain in Ephesus so that he could instruct "certain people" to not teach "strange doctrines" (1Ti 1:3). He wrote so that Timothy would "k...

@frankly_will @LutheranLifter It was the Apostle Paul in his personal letter addressed to Timothy urging him to remain in Ephesus so that he could instruct "certain people" to not teach "strange doctr

1Ti 1:3 1Ti 3:15 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-21

@Northof50290567 @ronhenzel @aaron_p_edwards Is it illegitimate to suggest that the temple of Artemis has something to do with why women were being told to not teach men in 1Ti 2:12? I disagree with it, but not because it is illegitimate. There reall...

@Northof50290567 @ronhenzel @aaron_p_edwards Is it illegitimate to suggest that the temple of Artemis has something to do with why women were being told to not teach men in 1Ti 2:12? I disagree with i

1Ti 2:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-19

@ronhenzel Interesting, Ron, because I know very few egalitarians who agree with

@ronhenzel Interesting, Ron, because I know very few egalitarians who agree with me that this is about a specific woman who was teaching false doctrine in the church at Ephesus. Do you know others? Be

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-18

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 And why he might be obscuring the name of a specific deceived married woman in the church at Ephesus whom Timothy would readily recognize without naming given Paul’s comments. Paul told us: “remain…so that you would instruct *...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 And why he might be obscuring the name of a specific deceived married woman in the church at Ephesus whom Timothy would readily recognize without naming given Paul’s comments.

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