1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Does this verse apply today? Does this verse mean women should have no say in what happens in the church today? Should women teach? If they should teach must it be only other women? Would them teaching a mixed SS class, for instance, mean they have authority over men?
We're studying this in our ladies SS class and I'm looking for varied opinions. Thanks!
What does the context show? Why did Paul say they should not speak nor teach nor usurp authority over men?
1 Timothy also speaks to this chapter 2: 8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Notice verse 13 this has not changed Adam was formed first the man is the head of the family and has the Spiritual responsibility.
A mother teaches her children the father also has that responsibility but he too is to provide as the head.
A woman can teach children and teens she is just not to teach Adult Men they are to be responsible why because Adam was created first.
Now the word Paul used and that is translated authority is:
Strong's Number: 831 au)qenteÑw
Original Word Word Origin
au)qenteÑw from a compound of (846) and an obsolete hentes (a worker)
Transliterated Word Phonetic Spelling
Authenteo ow-then-teh'-o
Parts of Speech TDNT
Verb None
Definition
1. one who with his own hands kills another or himself
2. one who acts on his own authority, autocratic
3. an absolute master
4. to govern, exercise dominion over one
Paul's point not of her on authority was she to be the master (dominate) the man in teaching him.
Look to the word usurp in the Greek:
Strong's Number: 3761 ou)deÑ
Original Word Word Origin
ou)deÑ from (3756) and (1161)
Transliterated Word Phonetic Spelling
Oude oo-deh'
Parts of Speech TDNT
Conjunction None
Definition
1. but not, neither, nor, not even
She is not even to have dominance over the man nor Teach:
Here is the word for teach:
Strong's Number: 1321 dida/skw
Original Word Word Origin
dida/skw a prolonged (causative) form of a primary verb dao (to learn)
Transliterated Word Phonetic Spelling
Didasko did-as'-ko
Parts of Speech TDNT
Verb 2:135,161
Definition
1. to teach
a.to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic discourses
b. to be a teacher
c. to discharge the office of a teacher, conduct one's self as a teacher
2. to teach one
a. to impart instruction
b. instill doctrine into one
c. the thing taught or enjoined
d. to explain or expound a thing
e. to teach one something
So that Paul is saying she is not to instruct in Spiritual things, not to kill his spirit and not even to attempt too.
So now to your passage
1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
The greek for silence:
Strong's Number: 4601 siga/w
Original Word Word Origin
siga/w from (4602)
Transliterated Word Phonetic Spelling
Sigao see-gah'-o
Parts of Speech TDNT
Verb None
Definition
1. to keep silence, hold one's peace
2. to be kept in silence, be concealed
The word speak:
Strong's Number: 2980 laleÑw
Original Word Word Origin
laleÑw a prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb
Transliterated Word Phonetic Spelling
Laleo lal-eh'-o
Parts of Speech TDNT
Verb 4:69,505
Definition
1. to utter a voice or emit a sound
2. to speak
a. to use the tongue or the faculty of speech
b. to utter articulate sounds
3. to talk
4. to utter, tell
5. to use words in order to declare one's mind and disclose one's thoughts
a. to speak
She is tpo hold her peace on spiritual matters in the church. Business meetings not a problem, teaching children and women not a problem, teaching men big problem. That being said if men WILL NOT step up and teach the classes the women will, the man puts HIMSELF under her subjection and HE needs to confess and repent of that, there in lies the problem instead of taking the leadership role God gave him most men would rather avoid conflict with the women and submit to her instead of standing and doing what God has called him to do, that is to be the SPIRITUAL leader. That would include teaching, and if a deacon won't step up and teach he shouldn't be a deacon because I know no where does it say he is to teach but if he is a man of God in church of the order the church should follow he should be willing to see that the order is kept even if it means to teach.
