S2 Ep1012: #1012 - Paul, Gender, and the Women in Leadership Debate: Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall
Theology in the Raw
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The One Woman Man Is an Idiom
The one woman man is an idiom that can be used for women. It's something that stands for faithfulness and would not exclude someone who's not marrieg i iit. The greek does use masculine pronouns here. Or is it like verse one? My translation says, if if one aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble work,. I'm sceptical of that reading. But this is a sad phrase, a set idiom. And just like withinwin proverbs, and how a the septugen it's proverbs is translated in the septugan, it looks like it's all about men.
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