“To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
To be self-controlled and pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled — the younger women's virtues (sophron = self-controlled, hagnas = pure, oikourous = domestic-minded, agathous = good, hypotassomenous = submissive) serve a missionary purpose: lest the word be blasphemed (blasphēmētai). The connection suggests that sexual and domestic ethics function as public testimony to gospel power, making Christian households visible advertisements of divine transformation.
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