And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
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
Eve was deceived; Adam was not. Yet the passage speaks comfort to women in their sorrowful state. Salvation comes not through childbearing itself, but through the birth of Christ, the true Messiah, in Whom both men and women find deliverance from the Fall.
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