For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
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
And Adam was not deceived,.... There is no need to say with interpreters, that he was not deceived first; and that he was not deceived immediately by the serpent, but by Eve; and that he is never said in Scripture to be deceived, as Melchizedek is never said to have a father or mother.