
S2 Ep1012: #1012 - Paul, Gender, and the Women in Leadership Debate: Dr. Cynthia Long Westfall
Theology in the Raw
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What's the Best Translation of Five 22?
kit yeg: Most translations like mine n here say, wives submit to your own husbands as to the lord. What's the best translation of five 22? Not not the most woodenly literal, but like what's paul saying in that verse. i wanted to actually take all the household code that goes down througha six, nine,. and i undertook to indent it with bullet points to show that the whole thing was about submitting to one another. There is not a single command given to women. That's not how the text reads, but there's not an imperative. So women its, he's almost avoiding using a command. Why? I think it's because generally everyone understands what
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