1. Methodism And Female Clergy
... the first to sin and she was punished for this. That punishment was that she would be in submission to her husband. Likewise Wesley agrees with this interpretation of scripture. He writes that woman was to be "his companion, and the wife of his covenant." Furthermore, because of the fall she was to ... the whole sex, which by creation was equal with man, is for sin made inferior." Wesley again speaks of women specifically in his interpretation of Genesis 2:23, "she shall be called woman, Isha, a She- man, differing from man in sex only, not in nature." Clearly from his ... interpretatio...
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