but it is important to note that because of his social orientation such a consideration never seems to have come into focus. The intent of the command, then, is to interdict situations in which wives publicly contradict what their husbands say or think or embarrass them by an interchange of conversation. They may thus be rejecting the authority of their husbands (which was firmly fixed in the sociology of their religion) and thereby be no longer subordinate. In 11:5 Paul indicated that women could