1 CORINTHIANS 14:34 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.”
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says — textually and theologically complex: Paul restricts women's public prophetic utterance. The context likely involves disruptive questioning in corporate worship, a breach of Greco-Roman honor-shame codes. Whether Paul or a later editor wrote this, it must be read within its patriarchal context.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 14:34
Having abated the disturbance both from the tongues and from the prophesyings; and having made a law to prevent confusion, that they who speak with tongues should do this in turn, and that they who prophesy should be silent when another begins; he next in course proceeds to the disorder which arose from the women, cutting off their unseasonable boldness of speech: and that very opportunely. For if to them that have the gifts it is not permitted to speak inconsiderately, nor…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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