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@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel Paul is telling Timothy he is not allowing what this specific woman is doing. Paul is not asking Timothy to interfere. Paul is making the decision. Timothy is to give the message to the woman. In that way he is steppin...

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel Paul is telling Timothy he is not allowing what this specific woman is doing. Paul is not asking Timothy to interfere. Paul is making the decision. Timothy is to give t

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel Well, I haven’t found it everywhere… just in this passage. Paul charged Timothy to stop “certain people” and he identified in chapter 1 that some are ignorant and some are not, and that the ignorant should receive mer...

@carol66944 @EkIesou @ronhenzel Well, I haven’t found it everywhere… just in this passage. Paul charged Timothy to stop “certain people” and he identified in chapter 1 that some are ignorant and some

@StevenMKestner @SwordMasterPub Was Paul a husband? Timothy?

@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

@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”

@ronhenzel @pastherandie @Christ_like_ish @JollyStine @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Paul is clearly writing to Timothy to show him how he should act to deal with the false teaching. This is primarily a letter addressed to Timothy expressly t...

@ronhenzel @pastherandie @Christ_like_ish @JollyStine @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Paul is clearly writing to Timothy to show him how *he* should act to deal with the false teaching. This is p

@jhkrantz @pastherandie @ronhenzel @Christ_like_ish @JollyStine @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Paul gives the proper order for dealing with false doctrine. A properly functioning leadership will curb false teaching by gently dealing with it. As...

@jhkrantz @pastherandie @ronhenzel @Christ_like_ish @JollyStine @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Paul gives the proper order for dealing with false doctrine. A properly functioning leadership will

1Ti 3:15 general

@ChrisAndJones @MikeWingerii That’s correct. He only says Paul prohibits women from being elders or acting/speaking in such a way that they would be confused as elders. But that’s not what Paul is prohibiting. Paul’s personal letter to Timothy is to ...

@ChrisAndJones @MikeWingerii That’s correct. He only says Paul prohibits women from being elders or acting/speaking in such a way that they would be confused as elders. But that’s not what Paul is pro

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii I think in this case the ignorant one was the woman and the non-ignorant ones were two men. Because its a personal letter to Timothy and they spent significant time together, how Paul wrote it for Timothy ...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii I think in this case the ignorant one was the woman and the non-ignorant ones were two men. Because its a personal letter to Timothy and they spent signifi

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii The context to chapter 2 starts in the first chapter. Paul wrote this personal letter to Timothy for a reason, and it was to stop "certain people" from teaching strange doctrines, not to stop anyone from t...

@EtAbundatGratia @mythreesonsb @MikeWingerii The context to chapter 2 starts in the first chapter. Paul wrote this personal letter to Timothy for a reason, and it was to stop "certain people" from tea

@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

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @JollyStine @MargMowczko @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii There’s no imperative. The context is personal instruction to Timothy on how to deal with an unnamed woman teaching false doctrine. Paul doesn...

@peace_got @Robert_S_Morley @JollyStine @MargMowczko @pastherandie @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii There’s no imperative. The context is personal instruction to Timothy on how to deal with an

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii He also said 1Ti 3:15 was about how “one ought to behave” but the context shows clearly that Paul is showing Timothy how he ought to behave to deal with the fal...

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii He also said 1Ti 3:15 was about how “one ought to behave” but the context shows clearly that Paul is showing Tim

1Ti 3:15 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-13

@JollyStine @peace_got @JoanBandy @CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Ye

@JollyStine @peace_got @JoanBandy @CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Yes, I got that she alone was deceived. How was this causing division since the husband was silent (forcing Timothy to int

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

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

@Torncurtainorg @theologicaljoe @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii You are attempting to draw a prohibition from a "let's see if we can find a single woman preacher in the NT"⎯ you cannot take narrative or description and form prohibition from that. We don't ha...

@Torncurtainorg @theologicaljoe @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii You are attempting to draw a prohibition from a "let's see if we can find a single woman preacher in the NT"⎯ you cannot take narrative or descr

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@peace_got @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Timothy and Titus say essentially the same thing. Who wrote Ruth? Who wrote Esther? Who wrote Hebrews? Deborah was a judge and prophet. Junia was an ordinary (not foundational) apostle. No one is saying that ...

@peace_got @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Timothy and Titus say essentially the same thing. Who wrote Ruth? Who wrote Esther? Who wrote Hebrews? Deborah was a judge and prophet. Junia was an ordinary (

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

@onegospel2021 @NotTheBaptizer @joyklaprade @MikeWingerii If married, faithful t

@onegospel2021 @NotTheBaptizer @joyklaprade @MikeWingerii If married, faithful to one’s spouse. Only one of a list of character requirements. This does not mean must be married or must have multiple c

@NotTheBaptizer @onegospel2021 @joyklaprade @MikeWingerii Thanks. Where does it

@NotTheBaptizer @onegospel2021 @joyklaprade @MikeWingerii Thanks. Where does it specifically call for “only men”? To be consistent, you would have to say a married man, so all single men are excluded.

@TentSpike @jsrrayburn @ryancduff @deadtosin610 @CharmyRosewolf @AlanDMyattPhD S

@TentSpike @jsrrayburn @ryancduff @deadtosin610 @CharmyRosewolf @AlanDMyattPhD So Paul’s purpose of writing Timothy was to stop females from having any positions of authority?

@TentSpike @jsrrayburn @ryancduff @deadtosin610 @CharmyRosewolf @AlanDMyattPhD S

@TentSpike @jsrrayburn @ryancduff @deadtosin610 @CharmyRosewolf @AlanDMyattPhD So Paul wants Timothy to stop people from teaching truth? Where do you get that from?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-08

@OperHealAmerica @Gary5040390811 How is this a primary matter where you need to divide from your church? Where is a godly woman leading a church into truth ever considered a sin in scripture? Wasn't Paul writing to Timothy to stop "certain people" fr...

@OperHealAmerica @Gary5040390811 How is this a primary matter where you need to divide from your church? Where is a godly woman leading a church into truth ever considered a sin in scripture? Wasn't P

1Ti 1:3 question

@jsrrayburn @ryancduff @TentSpike @deadtosin610 @CharmyRosewolf @AlanDMyattPhD "a woman" is not always specific, but since the article is used with the noun in v14, this anaphorically indicates that the "a woman" is a specific woman. Paul said in 1Ti...

@jsrrayburn @ryancduff @TentSpike @deadtosin610 @CharmyRosewolf @AlanDMyattPhD "a woman" is not always specific, but since the article is used with the noun in v14, this anaphorically indicates that t

1Ti 1:3 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-07

@Grump_Old_Man Sure, glad you asked. The meaning is very much tied to the contex

@Grump_Old_Man Sure, glad you asked. The meaning is very much tied to the context. Paul's specific grammar, word choice and references as well as the conveyed intent of this personal letter and instru

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-02

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Absolutely. Timothy wasn't in a church by himself. Paul was instructing Timothy on "how he should behave" (1Ti 3:15) but this would have impacts to and application to others. Eve...

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @3HillsMinor @Rattle_Resists @michael_ronning Absolutely. Timothy wasn't in a church by himself. Paul was instructing Timothy on "how he should behave" (1Ti 3:15) but this wo

1Ti 3:15 Mat 28:18-20 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-02

RT @ryanschatz: 6/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 5, final) 1 Timothy 2:15

RT @ryanschatz: 6/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 5, final) 1 Timothy 2:15 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 6-1. In 1 Tim 2:15, 'the woman' is said that she '…

1 Tim 2:11-15 1 Tim 2:15 1 Timothy 2:15 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-01

RT @ryanschatz: 5/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 4) 1 Timothy 2:13-14 ⎯⎯⎯

RT @ryanschatz: 5/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 4) 1 Timothy 2:13-14 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 5-1. In 1 Tim 2:13-14, Paul relates the problem back t…

1 Tim 2:11-15 1 Tim 2:13-14 1 Timothy 2:13-14 general

@ThomisticRednek @KatKanada_TM @oliverburdick "A woman" is not in the plural. v14 says "the woman" which is an anaphoric use of the article showing that "a woman" is a specific woman. 1Ti 1:3 says that Paul left Timothy behind to stop "certain people...

@ThomisticRednek @KatKanada_TM @oliverburdick "A woman" is not in the plural. v14 says "the woman" which is an anaphoric use of the article showing that "a woman" is a specific woman. 1Ti 1:3 says tha

1Ti 1:3 general

1 Tim 2:11-15 1 Timothy 2:11-12 general

RT @ryanschatz: 4/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 3) 1 Timothy 2:11-12 ⎯⎯⎯

RT @ryanschatz: 4/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 3) 1 Timothy 2:11-12 ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ 4-1. Paul then switches to the singular form in verse…

@TomBuck Tom, 1Ti 2:12 is not referring to all women and Paul didn't direct Timo

@TomBuck Tom, 1Ti 2:12 is not referring to all women and Paul didn't direct Timothy to stop anyone from teaching truth to anyone. You have to read it in context. https://t.co/YjFKhdCvlY

1Ti 2:12 commentary

@mmckoyis I don't know what exactly @SowUnique1of1 is saying, but 1Ti 2:12 is no

@mmckoyis I don't know what exactly @SowUnique1of1 is saying, but 1Ti 2:12 is not about preventing godly women from teaching truth to anyone⎯the letter to Timothy was about stopping "certain people" f

1Ti 2:12 debate

1 Tim 2:11-15 1 Timothy 2:1-10 commentary

RT @ryanschatz: 3/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 2) Context in 1 Timothy 2

RT @ryanschatz: 3/🧵 Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 2) Context in 1 Timothy 2:1-10 In Chapter 2 and following the context of false teach…

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-28

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy Just as the older men should instruct the younger men and lead by example, so also the older women should instruct the younger women and lead by example. But women teach males too. Women taught Timothy theology and were the...

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy Just as the older men should instruct the younger men and lead by example, so also the older women should instruct the younger women and lead by example. But women teach mal

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-28

RT @ryanschatz: 2/🧵Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 1) Context in 1 Timothy 1

RT @ryanschatz: 2/🧵Exposition of 1 Tim 2:11-15 (part 1) Context in 1 Timothy 1 "A Text Without A Context is Pretext for a Prooftext" Firs…

1 Tim 2:11-15 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-27

@Revelation_14_7 The letter is written to a specific person, a man named Timothy

@Revelation_14_7 The letter is written to a specific person, a man named Timothy, about stopping “specific people” from teaching “strange doctrines.” As Paul says in 1Ti 3:15, he wrote Timothy to show

1Ti 3:15 general

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.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-26

@LutheranLifter So the context is that Paul told Timothy to stop people from tea

@LutheranLifter So the context is that Paul told Timothy to stop people from teaching true doctrine? Or did you forget to actually read the rest of the letter?

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 2024-02-26

@TomWarlord @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn First, you didn't answer my question. Rather, you listed two verses that don't say anywhere that a godly woman teaching truth to men is a sin. Further, you didn't explain how they affirm that such is in fact a ...

@TomWarlord @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn First, you didn't answer my question. Rather, you listed two verses that don't say anywhere that a godly woman teaching truth to men is a sin. Further, you didn

1Ti 2:12 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-22

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel Hi Tom. She’s not imaginary. Paul’s not naming her as a way of showing grace 1Ti 1:13 (he names and marks those who teach false doctrines with knowledge, 1Ti 1:19-20). Because it’s a personal letter to Timothy, what Paul said ...

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel Hi Tom. She’s not imaginary. Paul’s not naming her as a way of showing grace 1Ti 1:13 (he names and marks those who teach false doctrines with knowledge, 1Ti 1:19-20). Because

1Ti 1:13 1Ti 1:19-20 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-20

@ronhenzel Ron, this is disappointing. Do I need to review again? We opened with a tweet that cast female pastors as scripturally silent, citing 1 Timothy 2:12. You jumped in, wielding John 10:19 about division as if truth itself is a sword to spli...

@ronhenzel Ron, this is disappointing. Do I need to review again? We opened with a tweet that cast female pastors as scripturally silent, citing 1 Timothy 2:12. You jumped in, wielding John 10:19 ab

John 10:19 1 Timothy 2:12 question

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-20

@Nico_Aurelio_ @LilaGraceRose The sex of the preacher is not an issue for Paul. What is an issue is false teaching and whether the person is mature, sound in the faith and lives according to the faith (is godly). The purpose of Paul writing his lette...

@Nico_Aurelio_ @LilaGraceRose The sex of the preacher is not an issue for Paul. What is an issue is false teaching and whether the person is mature, sound in the faith and lives according to the faith

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-19

@AsherJacob23060 @ronhenzel This is a good point⎯Paul doesn't say "the law says"

@AsherJacob23060 @ronhenzel This is a good point⎯Paul doesn't say "the law says" or that sort of thing. I believe it is because Paul is providing backup for young single Timothy as he was about to get

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-19

@ronhenzel @MBurtwrites Right, that certainly doesn't sound like a total guess. In context, Paul knows that the young, single Timothy interjecting to stop this woman from teaching with her husband silently watching could be dicey. Maybe they would d...

@ronhenzel @MBurtwrites Right, that certainly doesn't sound like a total guess. In context, Paul knows that the young, single Timothy interjecting to stop this woman from teaching with her husband si

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 So it’s not about rotten apples, tigers or pennies—all things Ron uses to distract you from how Paul is using this anarthrous in his personal letter to Timothy. And Ron knows full well that Paul can use it to refer to someo...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 So it’s not about rotten apples, tigers or pennies—all things Ron uses to distract you from how *Paul* is using this anarthrous in his personal letter to Timothy. And Ron knows

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Since this is a personal letter to Timothy, Paul is able to be more discreet and yet Timothy will understand who it is that he needs to deal with. No where does Paul infer explicitly or implicitly that the problem is some teach...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Since this is a personal letter to Timothy, Paul is able to be more discreet and yet Timothy will understand who it is that he needs to deal with. No where does Paul infer expli

@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.

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Of course, you are not saying that Paul cannot use “a woman” to be referring to a specific woman, right? Because pennies, tigers and rotten apples have nothing to do with the context of this passage, Paul’s stated purpose in wr...

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 Of course, you are not saying that Paul cannot use “a woman” to be referring to a specific woman, right? Because pennies, tigers and rotten apples have nothing to do with the co