women’s learning in the midst of the assembled people of God, so also the prohibition of teaching here has the same setting and perspective in view. διδάσκειν (Pl.* 15x) means generally “to teach or instruct.” Here the religious subject matter is assumed, and the persons (not) to be taught are “men,” the implication being that women may not teach or exercise authority in or over the church (of which men are a part; cf. 1 Cor. 14:34, 35: “in the churches,” “in church”). Other uses of the verb