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Holmes examines four exegetical devices employed by countering sides in the debate regarding 1 Timothy 2:9–15. She proposes that together these differing positions actually create a ‘whirlwind’ which obscures the text’s meaning. Her investigation considers whether (1) the immediate context is general, not ecclesial; (2) the background reconstructed from passages elsewhere in the Pastoral letters...

correct, Payne, those following him, and those arguing similarly, are wrong: the Greek here (despite Payne’s italicized claim) does convey the Author’s visualization of an ongoing command. Of course this does not mean that the context cannot set limitations to that continuity. If sufficient reason should be found to conclude that the instruction is directed at particular circumstances, the Author may visualize prohibitions whose relevance is continuous only so long as those circumstances prevail.
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