There can be no softening of hypotagē, which suggests not simply an attitude, but a structural placement of one person below another (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 3.66.3; 2 Cor 9:13; Gal 2:5). The same demand will be made of the children of a household in 1 Tim 3:4 (compare Tit 2:5, 9; 3:1). 12. I do not entrust teaching to a woman: This can be rendered more literally as “I do not allow [epitrepō] to a woman to teach.” For the strength of epitrepō, compare Epictetus, Discourses
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