1 Timothy 2:11
11 Let [manthano] the woman [gune] learn [manthano] in [en] silence [hesuchia] with [en] all [pas] subjection. [hupotage] KJV-Interlinear
11 Let a woman quietly receive
instruction with entire submissiveness. NASB
Ok. Now we enter into the area where the guys get
all macho, and the women detest or resent, being viewed as second class
citizens.And both views are wrong.
That is because too
many people want to read only the words and then make direct applications of
the words mentioned as literal and the only possible interpretations. And most folks who try to make such
restrictive interpretations have difficulty in life because their reading is
not correct.
And so we have idiot
religions like Islam who place the woman somewhere lower than a dog, and idiot men who just want an excuse to be the boss.
So, we have three words
in this verse, combined with our context, which will clear it all up. Do you remember our subject?
The four words. Woman, learn,
silence, and subjection.Not that these four
words are necessarily bad when put together, but we need to look deeper into
the words.
Woman, gune, is a reference to a married woman. It is not a reference to a single woman. Married is a completion process, whereby the
woman (or person) has crossed the threshold of change from a state of
incompleteness to a state of a completion process.
Read that paragraph
again, and slowly, so you can begin to catch the drift of what it says.
Remember that the Bible
has to be read and interpreted as a complete unit, and not piece meal. No jew, no
gentile, no male, no female, etc. Remember that passage?
The next word, learn, manthano, which means to learn, for the purpose of coming
to an understanding of what you learned.
To understand.
Silence, hesuchia, to not fidget, to not be a distraction, to not
bustle about, to be quiet, to concentrate on what is being presented.
Subjection, hupotage, subordination to ones
self, self discipline, to be subdued, to be obedient to a higher authority.
So, do you see the flow
here?
Women (and anyone for
that matter), are to submit themselves to the learning process which leads to
the completion of their life.Namely the
teaching and instruction of Bible doctrine and growth to spiritual maturity.
People are to submit to
the authority of Gods truth.But they
need to learn it first, and therefore they must approach that learning process
with self discipline and concentration, so that they can actually learn, and so
that they can actually understand what it is that they are learning.
This means that you
halt the thinking process which generates arguments or self opinions, and you
listen with the intent to learn.
Learning Bible doctrine
is the marriage of Gods word to the soul. That is the only legitimate and permanent
marriage in existence.
The feminine view here
means that the person learning is the student, without portfolio. You have no rights, no say, when it comes to learning
truth.Only when you have learned, and
that takes ones entire life, will you then have a say at some time in eternity.
The reason for this is
because far too many people get things all mixed up, and that leads to
confusion and distortions and confrontational arguments, of what the Bible
teaches.Just look at all of the
denominations and opinions that are floating out there in the world. Too many chiefs.
Work on your inner
self, your soul, not on your outer self (to the exclusion of your soul).
And you learn, by
submitting yourself to a learning process.
Gods defined learning process, not yours.
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