Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
Paul makes this command to meet a perverse objection: some think we need only pray for believers and the Church, and why concern ourselves with strangers? He cuts through that reasoning and orders us to pray for all men without exception, not limiting our prayers to the body of the Church alone.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 2:1-15
Good works are the best ornament a Christian woman can wear; they hold great price before God, far more than fine clothes. She must learn Scripture and the principles of godliness, not imagine her sex excuses her from the learning necessary to salvation, and remain silent and submissive, as her creation and transgression both declare.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 2:9-15
But I suffer not a woman to teach, They may teach in private, in their own houses and families; they are to be teachers of good things, Tit 2:3. They are to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; nor is the law or doctrine of a mother to be forsaken, any more than the instruction of a father; see Pro 1:8.