1 TIMOTHY 2:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.”
Let a woman learn in silence with full submissiveness — the instruction permits women's learning (manthanō) while stipulating subordination (hypotagē) and quietude (sigaō). The permission to learn contradicts claims of complete female exclusion from religious instruction in early Christianity.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 2:11
Great modesty and great propriety does the blessed Paul require of women, and that not only with respect to their dress and appearance: he proceeds even to regulate their speech. And what says he? “Let the woman learn in silence”; that is, let her not speak at all in the church; which rule he has also given in his Epistle to the Corinthians, where he says, “It is a shame for women to speak in the church” 1 Corinthians 14:35; and the reason is, that the law has made them…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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