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First Timothy II. 11-15. 59
Matthies) explain o by tv tovtg) o, and connect 6i' spy. dy. with
enayy. to which therefore the signification of inayy. = profiteri does
not correspond (De Wette). Of the signification there can be no
doubt, according to the context, and a comparison with vi, 21. We
find, moreover, in the Pastoral Epistles the word also in the signification
in which it is elsewhere used by the apostle ;
comp. Tit. i. 2.
On good ivoi^hs, comp. Eph. ii. 10. On the entire passage, comp.
1 Cor. xi. 2, seq. ; 1 Pet. iii. 3, seq.
Vers. 11-15.—We learn from these verses that besides the fondness
for exterior adornment which shewed itself even in the public
assemblies for prayer, the apostle had still another kindred fault to
censure in the women of the church, namely, their putting themselves
forward in consequence of mistaking the proper sphere assigned
to them. This displayed itself in their coming forward to
teach in the public assemblies, and thus usurping an authority over
the man. To this also we find a parallel in the first epistle to the
Corinthians (xiv. 34), which has this in common with our epistle
and that to Titus, that it throws light on the state of the church in
regard to morals and discipline ; it cannot therefore be maintained
with certainty that this public appearance on the part of the women
stands in connexion with the so-called heresies which the apostle
combats. The passage 2 Tim. iii. 6, seq., affords no proof of this.
A reference to 2 Cor. xi. 5, xiv. 34, will suffice in opposition to
Baur's anti-Marcionitic interpretation of the passage, for our present
passage contains nothing more than may be found in those passages.
That the apostle, in this epistle, where he has in view the
state of things in the Ephesian church, repeats in substance the injunctions
which had before been given to the church in Corinth,
without noticing any cause which had led him to do this, has certainly
nothing surprising in it. Doubtless the cause was known to
Timothy. Comp. the General Introduction.
Vers. 11, 12. Vwri not ywalKeg ;
thus the form of the expression,
as well as the absence of all connexion, shews that the apostle
passes on to something new, which is also self-evident in the words,
learn in silence. There is here an antithesis in every word. In silence,
opposed to drawing attention to themselves by a public appearance.
Even the putting of questions by the women in the public
assembly is rebuked by the apostle, 1 Cor. xiv. 35. Let her learn
as opposed to teach. In all subjection, in opposition to usurping
authority over the man, 1 Cor. xiv. 34. Being in subjection is in
that passage represented as the proper position of the woman, which
of itself excludes the teaching in public assemblies ; but not of
course teaching in general. Acts xviii. 26. Instead of the reading
yvvatKL 61 did. A.D.F.G., etc., offer the other, which is also on internal
grounds to be preferred : diddoKsiv 6e yvvaiKi, etc. That the