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I Corinthians: A New Translation, Introduction with a Study of the Life of Paul, Notes, and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians stands as one of the Bible’s greatest masterpieces and certainly one of the greatest contributions to Christian theology. The epistle “to the church which is in Corinth…” addresses itself to the basic tenets of Christian faith as well as down-to-earth matters of moral conduct and standards of Christian living, including such topics as speaking in tongues, the...

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
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