1. The Woman's Role In The Church
... to their husbands in response to their submission to the Lordship of Christ (5:22). The reason for this, says Paul, is that the husband is head of the wife as Christ is head of the Church (5:23). The next verse makes the matter even more explicit: "as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives to ... and yet Paul commands older women to teach younger women (Titus 2). Furthermore, Paul was writing a letter. Unlike parables in which meanings are sometimes hidden or illustrated, letters are straightforward statements meant to be taken at face value by ... does not represent Paul's own...
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