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Wenstrom Bible M inistr ies

Marion, I owa

Pastor-Teacher Bil l Wenstrom

www.wenstrom.org
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Thursday March 31, 2011

1 Timothy: 1 Timothy 2:11-Paul Orders

Christian Women To Discipline Themselves

I n Making I t Their Habit Of Receiving

I nstruction Silently With Complete

Submission

Lesson #46


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Please turn in your Bibles to 1 Timothy 2:11.


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In 1 Timothy 2:11, the apostle Paul orders

Christian women to learn the Word of Godquietly with all submissiveness.


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1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must quietly

receive instruction with entiresubmissiveness.


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12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or

exercise authority over a man, but to

remain quiet.


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13 For it was Adam who was first created,

and then Eve.


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14 And it was not Adam who was deceived,

but the woman being deceived, fell into

transgression.


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15 But women will be preserved through

the bearing of children if they continue in

faith and love and sanctity with self-

restraint. (NASU)


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In verse 11, the apostle Paul is employing the

figure of asyndeton, which emphasizes how

serious Paul viewed the issue of the womens

role in the household of God, i.e. the local

assembly, the church.


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The figure of asyndeton in 1 Timothy 2:11 is

also signifying a change of topic with regards

to the role of the women in the household of

God.


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A woman must receive instruction is

composed of nominative feminine singular

form of the noungune () (yee-nee),

woman and the third person singular

present active imperative form of the verb

manthano () (mahn-thano), must

receive instruction.


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In 1 Timothy 2:11 as was the case in verse 9

and 10, the noungunemeans, woman or

female as opposed or in contrast to men or amale just as anerin verse 8 meant men in

contrast or as opposed to the women in verse

8.


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It refers to the Christian women throughout

the church age without reference to theirmarital status.


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Gune functions as a generic noun, which is

appropriate since Paul in verse 11 isaddressing a general truth.


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In relation to this, notice that Paul uses the

plural form of this word in verses 9-10 but

uses the singular in verse 11 and that is

because he is teaching an eternal spiritual

truth that is applicable in every dispensation.


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In 1 Timothy 2:11, the verb manthano means

to learn and refers to acquiring information

as the result of instruction, in the local

assembly.


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This indicates that Paul is commanding

Christian women to receive information about

the Christian faith through instruction from

their pastor-teachers quietly and with

complete submission.


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This verb means that Christian women are to

acquire information regarding the thinking of

the Lord Jesus Christ quietly and with total

submissiveness.


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It means that they are to receive instruction

regarding the doctrines of Christ.


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It means that they are to be furnished with

knowledge of Christ through a systematicmethod of teaching.


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They were to be furnished with knowledge of

the doctrines of Christ through the systematicmethod of teaching the Word of God.


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They were to be educated in the teachings of

Christ.


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They were to be trained in the doctrines of

Christ through the systematic method ofteaching of the Word of God.


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It indicates that they were to receive

authoritative instructions from their pastor-teachers regarding their conduct as Christians.


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This is a customary present imperative,which is a command for action to be

continued, action that may or may not have

already been going on and is often a character

building command to the effect of make this

your habit, train yourself in this, discipline

yourself.


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The present imperative of the verb is used of a

general precept for habits that shouldcharacterize ones attitude and behavior.


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Therefore, the present imperative form of the

verb manthano indicates that as a general

precept, Christian women must receive

biblical instruction quietly and with complete

submissiveness.


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It denotes that they are to be characterized as

receiving biblical instruction from their

pastor-teachers quietly and with complete

submissiveness.


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The fact that Paul has to address this issue in1 Timothy 2:11-15 with regards to the

womans role in the church implies that there

was a problem among the Christian women in

Ephesus attempting to be teachers and being

insubordinate since why mention it except for

preventive maintenance.


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Undoubtedly, there were many women who

were not insubordinate by attempting to teach

the Word of God to men in the local assemblyand of course there must have been a few that

did otherwise he would not addressed this

issue in the first place.


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So it appears that some women wereinsubordinate and many were not and thus it

is best to view this present imperative as Paul,

simply communicating a general precept ofthe Word of God and the Lord and the

apostles teaching without reference to

whether there was a violation of thiscommand or not.


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1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must quietly

receive instruction with entiresubmissiveness. (NASU)


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Quietly is composed of the preposition en

(), with and its object is the dative

feminine singular form of the noun hesuchia

() (eece-see-hee-ah), quietly.


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In 1 Timothy 2:11 and 12, the noun hesuchia

can either mean silence or quietness.


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The latter denotes the attitude of proper

deference to another speaking and the former

to refraining from speaking in a public

setting.


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The latter denotes demonstrating totaldeference to the man with spiritual gift of

pastor-teacher when he is communicating the

Word of God in a public setting in the church

whereas the former denotes totally refraining

from speaking audibly to the church in a

public setting.


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Specifically, it speaks of refraining from

teaching the Word of God in the presence ofmen in the local assembly.


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Since in context, Paul is addressing the proper

behavior or conduct of Christian women

while functioning in the local assembly along

with men, the noun hesuchiameans silence

rather than quietly or quietness.


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1 Corinthians 11:5 and Titus 2:2-3 make clearthat Paul is speaking with respect to a

particular activity in the church, namely the

communication of the Word of God since theformer permits women to speak if they have

the gift of prophecy and the latter permits her

to teach other women who are immature oryounger.


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This interpretation is further indicated by the

prepositional phrase thatalso modifies manthano.


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Christian women must learn the Word of God

with complete deference to the man with the

spiritual gift of pastor-teacher when he iscommunicating the Word of God in the local

assembly by not teaching the Word of God to

men in the local assembly.


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Therefore, in 1 Timothy 2:11 hesuchia does

not have any reference to the womans

attitude when receiving the Word of God but

rather her conduct and role with respect to the

teaching of the Word of God.


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Paul is prohibiting the women in the Christian

community from giving biblical instruction in

the local assembly when in the presence of

men.


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They are to show complete deference to those

men with the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher

when they are communicating the Word of

God to the church by not teaching men in the

local assembly themselves.


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So Pauls command here in 1 Timothy 2:11 is

specifically addressing the conduct of women

in a public worship setting with respect to the

exercise of the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher.


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Therefore, this passage teaches implicitly that

women have not been given the spiritual giftof pastor-teacher.


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The womens silence in this public worship

setting demonstrates her complete submissionto the will of God.


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With entire submissiveness is composedof the preposition en (), with and its

object is the dative feminine singular form of

the adjectivepas (), entire and thedative feminine singular form of the noun

hupotage () (eepoe-tighee),

submissiveness.


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The noun hupotagemeans submission and

refers to Christian women submitting to the

spiritual authority of the man with thespiritual gift of pastor-teacher by receiving

silently his instruction while in a public

setting in the local assembly.


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This is indicated by the fact that in context

Paul is addressing the conduct or behavior ofChristian women in a public worship setting.


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This word speaks of Christian women

subordinating themselves to the spiritual

authority of men with the spiritual gift ofpastor-teacher.


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It thus speaks of a particular situation and role

that the women are to play in the local church.


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The word is not used in the context of thewomans submission to the authority of her

husband but rather it refers to her submission

to the man with the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher when he is exercising that gift in a

public setting in the local assembly by

communicating the Word of God.


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The adjectivepas is modifying the noun

hupotageand means complete in the sense

of fully carrying out ones submission toanother.


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Here it indicates that Paul wants Christianwomen to receive instruction silently with

complete submissiveness in the sense of

fully carrying out all that is required of themwith respect to the teaching of the Word of

God by the man with the spiritual gift of

pastor-teacher.


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