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S2 Ep1041: Women in Leadership, part 2: 1 Timothy 2

Theology in the Raw

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Is This the Noun Used?

In the New Testament, women should not exercise authority over men as a slave owner would his slave. The astrological treatise Methodist mystica was in apparently inaccurately dated to the 1500s AD but has now been redated to anywhere between 100 BC to AD 50. This text conveys a familiar astrological trope where planetary positions in the heavens correspond to social positions on earth. And here we have a description of the planets determining the social status of people who are born according to when the plan, the arrangement of the planets or something like that.

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