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Originally Posted by OBW
Or it means it is an example that is being used in this particular case. There is nothing magical about using it in a context that provides it with "general principle" status. Paul did not speak this way concerning women in other contexts. But here in writing to Timothy, who was still in Ephesus, he writes in this manner. There was something in Ephesus that needed this particular warning.
Remember. Paul did not speak the same thing in all places. He spoke to the issues that needed addressing.
And when you read the epistle that was later labeled as to Ephesus, you find that the submission was a two-way street. We were to submit to one another. Wives to husbands, and husbands to wives. No hierarchy of submission except that all submit to Christ.
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What about Corinth? That was written to a church.
The two-way street idea is false doctrine. There is no verse in the Bible which says "husbands should submit to wives". There is no two-way street between Christ and us, or between the husband and wife.
It says wives should submit to husbands, and both husbands and wives should submit to Christ. The order is Christ -> Husband,wife -> Wife.
There is also no verse which says a man should submit to another man's wife (or any woman).
The instructions to "submit to one another" are concerning love between brothers:
Romans 12:10
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
BTW the confusion between gender roles in the church started around the same time that confusion around sexuality arose in the church. They are both from the same Jezebel spirit.