established his headship (13), as we have seen, while Eve’s folly in challenging it led to disaster (14). Anticipating that some of what he has written may upset his readers, Paul ‘modifies’ it ‘by adding a consolation’:110 But women will be saved (literally ‘she will be saved’ in the singular, but Paul is obviously generalizing) through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety (15) or ‘modesty’ (REB, NRSV), ‘splendid maternal attitudes’,111 since persistence in