Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 14:35
And even if they desire to learn anything — Still they are not to speak in public, but to ask their own husbands at home — That is the place, and those the persons to inquire of.
And even if they desire to learn anything — Still they are not to speak in public, but to ask their own husbands at home — That is the place, and those the persons to inquire of.
1 CORINTHIANS 14:34-35 _include verses here_ {B} Several witnesses, chiefly Western, transpose verses 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 to follow ver....
Verse 35. _FOR IT IS A SHAME FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH._] The Jews would not suffer a woman to _read_ in the synagogue; though a _servant_ or even a _child_, had this permission; but the apostl...
AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANYTHING - If anything has been spoken which they do not understand; or if on any particular subject they desire more full information, let them inquire of their husbands in the...
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)...
IF. App-118. WILL. wish to. App-102. THEIR. their own. HUSBANDS. App-123. AT HOME. in (Greek. _en)_ the home....
_let them ask their husbands at home_ Rather, -their OWN husbands." The women were not only not permitted to teach (see 1 Timothy 2:11-14) but even to ask questions in Church, a privilege, says. Groti...
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...
ΓΥΝΑΙΚῚ אAB, Vulg. γυναιξίν DEFG, Peshito and most copies of the Vetus Lat. 35. ΘΈΛΟΥΣΙΝ. The ‘will’ of the A.V. is here not the sign of the simple future. ‘If they _want_ to learn anything, let them...
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...
ΜΑΘΕΪ́Ν _aor. act. inf. от_ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G3129) учиться, ΘΈΛΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать (_см._ 1 Corinthians 14:19). Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, предполагающем реальность уеловия. ΈΝ ΟΊΚΩ...
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...
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. Women may say, 'But if we do not understand, may we not "ask" a question p...
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...
IF THEY WILL LEARN ANY THING] Perhaps some had expressed their own opinions under cover of seeking information. THEIR HUSBANDS] Most would be married; speaking would be still more unsuitable for the u...
_(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...
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...
IF THEY WILL LEARN ANY THING. — Better, _if they are desirous to learn anything._ They are not even to ask questions in public assemblies. They are to ask their husbands at home on every point on whic...
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...
εἰ δέ τι θέλουσιν μανθάνειν : “But if they want to _learn_ something” if this is the motive that prompts them to speak. This plea furnishes an excuse, consistent with the submission enjoined, for wome...
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...
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...
35._If they wish to learn any thing. _That he may not seem, by this means, to shut out women from opportunities of learning, he desires them, if they are in doubt as to anything, to inquire in private...
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 ...
AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANYTHING,.... If they are desirous of learning anything in relation to doctrine, duty, or discipline, and of improving their knowledge of divine things, which is very commendabl...
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. Ver. 35. _Ask their husbands_] Who therefore must dwell with them according...
_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...
IF THEY WILL LEARN ANY THING; beyond what they can by hearing. IT IS A SHAME; because it is stepping out of their proper place, assuming what does not belong to them, and acting in this respect as if...
AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANYTHING, LET THEM ASK THEIR HUSBANDS AT HOME; FOR IT IS A SHAME FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH....
Final regulations:...
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...
AND IF THEY WOULD LEARN ANYTHING, LET THEM ASK THEIR OWN HUSBANDS AT HOME: FOR IT IS SHAMEFUL FOR. WOMAN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH. This verse may be addressing another problem among the women in Corinth...
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 must be understood of speaking to the congregation, for the instructing them, or speaking in the congregation to the minister, or any of the people, for her own instruction, for the woman might,...
And if they would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home: for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church. [This is usually regarded as a very difficult passage, but the difficu...
Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins ,[15]...
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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 14:35. AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANYTHING an explanation of something spoken at the meeting, LET THEM ASK THEIR OWN HUSBANDS AT HOME: FOR IT IS SHAMEFUL FOR A WOMAN [1] TO SPEAK IN THE CHUR...
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...
IF THEY WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT SOMETHING. "We see two or three who speak God's message, and others who judge what is said (1 Corinthians 14:29). We see one of the "judges" rebuke one who "speaks," but...
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...
_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 11:14; 1 Corinthians 11:6; 1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Peter 3:7;...
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...