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1 Corinthians 14:34
Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the Law.
Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the Law.
1 CORINTHIANS 14:34-35 _include verses here_ {B} Several witnesses, chiefly Western, transpose verses 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 to follow ver....
1 CORINTHIANS 14:34 gunai/kej The Textus Receptus, following D F G K L many minuscules itd, g syrp, h with obelus _al,_ reads u`mw/n after gunai/kej. The Committee regarded this as probably a scribal...
Verse 34. _LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES_] This was a Jewish ordinance; women were not permitted to _teach_ in the assemblies, or even to _ask questions_. The rabbins taught that "a wom...
LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE ... - This rule is positive, explicit, and universal. There is no ambiguity in the expressions; and there can be no difference of opinion, one would suppose, in regard to t...
4. PROPHECY AND SPEAKING WITH A TONGUE. CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Prophecy the better gift. (1 Corinthians 14:1 .)_ 2. Intelligibility demanded. (1 Corinthians 14:14 .) 3. Practical instructions for the publ...
Paul now lays down the rules. At present at their assemblies all are eager to speak in one way or another. But the edification of the Church is to be the governing principle. Two may speak in tongues,...
Let women keep silent in the congregation, for it is not permitted to them to speak, but let them be in subjection even as the law says. If they wish to learn about anything, let them question their h...
THE FALSE AND THE TRUE WORSHIP (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)...
UNDER OBEDIENCE. subject, as in 1 Corinthians 14:32. AS ALSO, &C. = as the law also saith. Reference is to Genesis 3:16. Compare 1 Timothy 2:11....
Regulations to insure decency and order 26. _hath a psalm_ The Apostle here reproves another fault. Not only are the Corinthians ambitious rather of the gifts which attract attention, than of those wh...
_Let your women keep silence in the churches_ The position of women in Christian assemblies is now decided on the principles laid down in ch. 1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 11:7-9. _as also saith t...
[ὑμῶν] after ΓΥΝΑΙ͂ΚΕΣ DEFG Peshito. Text אAB, Vulg. ἘΠΙΤΡΈΠΕΤΑΙ אABDEFG, Vetus Lat. Vulg. Rec. ἐπιτέτραπται with Peshito. ὙΠΟΤΑΣΣΈΣΘΩΣΑΝ אAB Peshito. ὑποτάσσεσθαι DFG, Vetus Lat. Vulg. 34. ΑἹ ΓΥΝΑΙ...
REGULATIONS TO INSURE DECENCY AND ORDER...
_THE PROPER USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS -- 1 CORINTHIANS 14:26-40:_ Paul wanted it understood that when the church met for worship that everything that was done must be done for the good of all that were p...
ΓΥΝΑΊΚΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΓΎΝΗ (G1135) женщина, ΕΚΚΛΗΣΊΑ (G1577) церковь, собрание. Р1. здесь относится к местному собранию. ΣΙΓΆΤΩΣΑΝ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΣΙΓΆΩ (G4601) молчать, ΕΠΙΤΡΈΠΕΤΑΙ _prae...
LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE— "As to your women, let them keep silence in your assemblies: for it is not permitted them to discourse there, or pretend to teach: that no way suits the state of subjectio...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Rules For Using Spiritual Gifts_ (20-40) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 14:20-40. Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men. 21 In the law it is wr...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Perfecting With Decorum and Decency (1 Corinthians 14:26-40) 26 What then, brethren? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an...
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. (1 Timothy 2:11) For women to speak in...
24 Predicting, or foretelling, is not necessarily involved in the gift of prophecy. The prophet, in Scripture, is the mouthpiece or spokesman of God. He may speak of the past, the present, or the futu...
_(e) Spiritual Gifts (iii) The Gift of Tongues subordinate to Prophecy_ The Apostle in this chapter deals with the abuse of the gift of tongues which characterised the Corinthians, and declares that i...
AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW] Genesis 3:16 : cp. 1 Timothy 2:13;...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 *PROPHECY AND TONGUES 14:1-40 1. THE EFFECT OF *PROPHECY 14:1-5 V1 Follow the way of love. You should be eager to have the gifts of th...
BUT THEY ARE COMMANDED TO BE UNDER OBEDIENCE. — Better (as in some of the best MSS.), _but let them be under obedience._ The original precept laid down in Genesis 3:16 teaches this. “The law” stands f...
CHAPTER 20 SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP Is the first twenty-five verses of this chapter Paul gives his estimate of the comparative value of the two chief spiritual gifts: speaking with tongues...
§ 49. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS ON CHURCH ORDER. In 1 Corinthians 14:34 ff. P. returns to the matter which he first touched upon in reproving the disorderly Church life at Cor [2180], _viz_., the irregular b...
Αἱ γυναῖκες ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις σιγάτωσαν : “Let women (Gr [2182] generic art [2183]) keep silence in the church assemblies, for it is not allowed them to speak”; _cf._ 1 Timothy 2:12, where the “speak...
ORDER OF CHURCH SERVICES 1 Corinthians 14:26 Again the Apostle sums up his directions in two simple rules: 1. _Let all things be done unto edifying;_ that is, to building up individual character, and...
The apostle now submitted certain gifts to the test of love. Prophesying is desirable because it edifies others. Then as to Tongues. It was a gift that enabled men to speak to God, perhaps in prayer,...
Orderly Worship It seems there was a large group of Christians desiring to participate in the worship. There were apparently several who possessed each of the gifts. Paul knew it was the Lord's will t...
(15) Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law. (15) Women are commanded to be sil...
_Let women be silent, and not speak at all in public Church-meetings: and if they would ask any thing, let them ask it at home. (Witham)_...
VERS. 31-33A. “For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. 32. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33a. For God is not a God of confusion...
(23) If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad? (24) But...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
It appears that the Church of the Corinthians was infected with this fault too, that the talkativeness of women was allowed a place in the sacred assembly, or rather that the fullest liberty was given...
Two Verses in this Chapter 14 demand a little attention (1 Corinthians 14:1-2 the 3rd and the 6th (1 Corinthians 14:3; 1 Corinthians 14:6). Verse 3 ...
LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES,.... This is a restriction of, and an exception to one of the above rules, that all might prophesy; in which he would be understood of men only, and not of...
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but _they are commanded_ to be under obedience, as also saith the law. Ver. 34. _Let your women, &c._] _See Tr...
_Let your women_, &c. The last clause of the preceding verse is by some critics, and among the rest Bishop Pearce, joined with this, so as to make this sense; _as in all the churches of the saints, le...
IN THE CHURCHES; in the public religious assemblies....
Chapter 12 has shown the placing of every gift in its own place in the body by the Spirit of God. Chapter 13 insists on love as the pervading influence for unity and peace in the functioning of the bo...
LET THE WOMEN KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES: FOR IT IS NOT PERMITTED UNTO THEM TO SPEAK; BUT LET THEM BE IN SUBJECTION, AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW. 'keep silence' -the same word is also used in 1 Corinthia...
34-40 When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families ought to assemble for promoting spiritual knowle...
This rule must be restrained to ordinary prophesyings; for certainly, if the Spirit of prophecy came upon a woman in the church, she might speak. Anna, who was a prophetess, in the temple _gave thanks...
let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law. [Genesis 3:16; Numbers 30:3-12]...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V of learning[379] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V when he covers the woman that prophesies with a veil), he goes to the law for his sanction that woman should be...
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'Let the women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted to them to speak. But let them be in subjection, as also says the law. And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own hus...
THE USE OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS IN THE GATHERINGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE (14:1-40). Having raised us up to heaven Paul now brings us abruptly back to earth as he continues to advise on the use of spiritual gifts....
1 Corinthians 14:34. LET THE WOMEN KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES: FOR IT IS NOT PERMITTED UNTO THEM TO SPEAK; BUT LET THEM BE IN SUBJECTION, AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW referring probably to Genesis 3:16, of...
KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES (εν ταις εκκλησιαις σιγατωσαν). The same verb used about the disorders caused by speakers in tongues (verse 1 Corinthians 14:28) and prophets (1 Corinthians 14:30). For...
OBEDIENCE Compare (Genesis 3:16)....
CONTENTS: Prophecy and speaking in tongues. The order of the ministry of this gift in the church. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: That is the best and most eligible gift which best an...
What is the subject of this chapter? Does it refer to the constant manner in which worship was conducted in the primitive churches; or does it refer to the manner in which men possessed of secondary g...
THE WOMEN SHOULD KEEP QUIET. Which women??? Paul is dealing with the gift of speaking God's message. Then _the women_ of this verse must be _prophetesses. F. I. Stanley_ says: "He is speaking of what...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 14:34 THE WOMEN SHOULD KEEP SILENT IN THE CHURCHES. Since Paul seems to permit wives to pray and prophesy as long as they do not dishonor their husbands by the way...
CHAPTER XIV SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He puts prophecy before the gift of tongues, because (_a_) it is of great use in edifying others, and tongues are not, unless some one interpret; (_b_) because...
_Let women keep silence in the churches._ Ambrose, and after him Anselm, say that even the prophetesses are to keep silence: (1.) Because it is against the order of nature and of the Law, in Genesis 3...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 14:1. FOLLOW AFTER.—Taking up the thought of a “way,” 1 Corinthians 12:31; as this whole verse resumes the theme of 12, after the digression or episode of 13 “_Pursue_”...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 _The_ _gift of preaching superior to the gift_ _tongues_. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY; literally, _chase; pursue. _The word is one of whi
So Paul exhorts, Follow after love and desire spiritual (1 Corinthians 14:1), But rather, that you may prophecy. We were told to covet earnestly the best gifts. Now, again, he is saying the same thi...
1 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Corinthians 11:5; 1 Corinthians 11:7; 1 Corinthians 14:21;...
TALKING IN TONGUES 1 Corinthians 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The need for spiritual guidance in the matter of tongues. The church of today is beset by a group of people who very dogmatically assert t...
Let your women be silent in the churches — Unless they are under an extraordinary impulse of the Spirit. For, in other cases, it is not permitted them to speak — By way of teaching in public assemblie...
A farther rule is here given by the apostle for maintaining decency and order in the public assemblies; namely, that the women should never presume to speak or utter any thing as public teachers in th...