The verbs describing the woman from verses 12-29 include 19 perfects and 9 preterites which describe actions with past time references. Thus the four imperfect verbs that describe her (vv. 14, 18, 21, 27) should be understood as modal and operating in a past time frame. Proverbs 31:27...
And unlike animals which look to the ground, men and women stand upright with a heavenly gaze. God's Image: God created a form, that is, an image, for the eternal Son to indwell. The verses Jehovah's Witnesses assume undermine Christ's deity are actually verses describing this aspect of...
In describing the life of a church, Paul told Pastor Timothy to treat women with the warm encouragement that he would show to his own mother.16. Proverbs 11:16A gracious, generous woman will be honored with a splendid reputation, but the woman who hates the truth lives surrounded with ...
” The last eight verses of Deuteronomy (and of the Pentateuch), describing Moses’ death, were a problem even to the rabbis of the 2nd centuryce, who held that “this law” in the verse quoted refers to the whole Torah preceding it. There are also other passages that seem to be ...
This overview is important when it comes to the two specific prohibitions against women in leadership (1 Corinthians 14:34-36, 1 Timothy 2:12). In contrast to these two isolated passages, there are hundreds of verses describing Godly women in administrative and teaching roles: Miriam (prophet...
The verses in Clement read as follows: "When Salome asked how long will death prevail? The Lord said, As long as ye women bear children: for I have come to destroy the function of women. And Salome said to him. Did I not well then in not bearing children? And the Lord answered ...
"Compasses" is the Revised Version (British and American) for "compass," mechughah, an instrument for describing a circle: "He marketh it out with the compasses" (Isa 44:13) in making an idol.The verb "to compass" occurs frequently in the senses of "to surround" and "to go round ...
Job 29:2 tn The preposition כ (kaf) is used here in an expression describing the state desired, especially in the former time (see GKC 376 §118.u). Job 29:2 tn The expression is literally “months of before [or of old; or past].” The word קֶדֶם (qedem) is ...
Assuming that these reflections are accurate, the generous gesture [of a donation] on Paul’s part was perhaps what won them over, all the more so since from the gift they might infer certain legal requirements. Certainly Paul is restrained in describing this aspect of the conference when he...
I grew up in the Pentecostal church where [women preaching] was not unusual. It was pretty common. But my mother struggled with it from time to time because sometimes somebody would come through and read her the verses from Corinthians or Timothy. At one point she quit preaching and teaching...