Special Instructions About Women Learning (2:11–15) THE NEXT SECTION continues this same theme. Verse 11 begins, in the Greek text, with the words, “woman in quietness.”7 The same word for quietness also concludes verse 12, forming what is called an inclusio, an identical or similar word or phrase to mark the beginning and ending of a section of literature. This device shows how important Paul considered the attitude of quietness in learning to be for women. What stands in contrast to this quietness
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