Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

which has been stated to me recently, and even
previously I had heard that this would be the will of
God— [the Lord] said to me: ‘Tell them not to
follow only one part of the Scripture, to look at
others, and [see] if they will perchance be able to
tie my hands.’
Blaise Pascal, Pensées 673 (1660): Saint
Paul ... speaks of [marriage] to the Corinthians [I-
Cor 7] in a way which is a snare.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Reply to Sor
Filotea de la Cruz (1691): This should be
considered by those who, bound to ‘Let women
keep silence in the Church’ [I-Cor 14:34], say that
it is blasphemy for women to learn and teach, as if
it were not the Apostle himself who said ‘The elder
women ... teaching the good’ [Tit 2:3].... I would
want those interpreters and expositors of Saint
Paul to explain to me how they understand that
passage ‘Let the women keep silence in the
Church.’... Because Saint Paul's proposition is
absolute, and encompasses all women not
excepting saints, as also were in their time Martha
and Mary,... Mary mother of Jacob, Salome, and
many other women that there were in the fervor of
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