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Wallace argues that there is no instance in Paul that the combination “first person singular present tense with an infinitive ever means ‘right now, but not later’” (Greek Grammar, 526 n. 30; see Comment on 1 Tim 2:1 regarding the same construction). The present tense views an action from inside the action “without beginning or end in view” (Fanning, Verbal Aspect, 103). It says nothing about the completion of the event but only that from the speaker’s point of view it is an ongoing process. οὐκ ἐπιτρέπω, “I do not permit,” therefore, represents the apostle’s binding command for all churches.
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The strict constructionist view is fine except in the implementation. Where then does a Dora Yu fit into LC lore?
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"Yu was trained in western medicine in Suzhou, and practiced briefly, doing work in Korea. She then turned to evangelism. In one of her revival meeting in Church of Heavenly Peace, Fuzhou, in 1920, a young man later called Watchman Nee, at the age of seventeen, experienced a powerful salvation and immediately consecrated himself to serve God full-time. Besides being Watchman Nee’s “spiritual mother”, Yu was also his mentor through whom he was introduced to fundamental biblical truths and to inner life experiences and apparently also converted several of the women who were important in his subsequent successes."
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Or for that matter, Peace Wang? Or ME Barber? Or Ruth Lee? Or Jessie Penn-Lewis (the inspiration for Nee's "The Spiritual Man")? Or Madame Guyon (teacher of inner life experiences)? Or Mary MacDonough (who supposedly 'recovered the three parts of man')? Or Margaret MacDonald (discovered the 'secret rapture' teaching which Darby then promoted)? Or Miss Emily Fishbacher (who taught Nee 'charismania'; though he didn't promote it he accepted it - see e.g., the 'Shouters' today)?
And this doesn't even count things like head covering, which Paul also straitly enjoined, but are widely ignored today.