1 TIMOTHY 2:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.”
and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor — Eve's deception (exapatao) by the serpent and her transgression (parábasis) become the basis for her subordination. The differentiation of culpability (Adam not deceived but sinning anyway; Eve deceived) constructs a distinctive anthropology of gender and vulnerability.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 2:14
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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