A Woman of Chayil: Far Above Rubies by Jane Carole Anderson

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Originally Posted by Evangelical

Probably the strongest proof that this edict was not due to cultural reasons or anything of a localized nature is Paul's appeal to the Creation story in Genesis to support his edict. He could have appealed to good manners, avoiding disturbing others, brotherly love, as reasons for silence. But he didn't. He went back to the creation as reasons why women should keep silent. That means it is a general and universal principle.

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.