S2 Ep1018: #1018 - An Egalitarian View of Women in Ministry in Light of the Greco-Roman Context: Dr. Lynn Cohick
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Are You Assuming? Is It Largely Due to Lack of Education?
There's good evidence that they wouldn't have had the proper education to be qualified to teach. The term assume authority over is an unfortunate translation because it's a word that we don't find anywhere else in as a verb anywhere else in the New Testament and very rarely in this time period. So when we do find it, it's always really negative. But I think there's actually a content problem. And I can't imagine Paul saying, you know what, you can go ahead and tell as many endless genealogists and mindless speculation stuff to the women in your congregation. There's no way Paul would say that.
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