re: #559 Aceofwhat?

Oh. Well, fine - take Thayer literally - it becomes “i will not suffer a woman to exercise dominion over or be an absolute master of…”. Hardly sexist.
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Why are you choosing that one meaning out of the four as the ‘literal’ meaning?

So this passage is less about translation and more about context. Remember, in this book, Paul is writing to Timothy who was sent to Ephesus and encountered some unsound offshoot of Christianity; the primary feature was that an unusual number of women were involved in spreading and promoting something that was no longer Christianity.

So Paul starts the verse with, colloquially, a Genesis parallel. That is, “in Genesis, a woman was responsible for a deception, and you have that here too.” So the instructions for Ephesus were, ladies, Eve sinned too but was redeemed through childbirth, i.e. being a good mother and example to her children.

In context: ladies, you’re guilty of deception, just like Eve. and just like Eve, you can get back on the straight and narrow by raising your family right.

So your claim is that this passage is not meant to refer to all women, but just those particularly troublesome women? And that it is only in this context that Eve being the one deceived is important?

It’s basically just a dishonest political ploy— and that’s a defense of the text, for you?

Why were there no female apostles?