prophecies] a. “for they are not permitted to speak” 1) “but let them subject themselves” 2) “just as the Law also says” b. “and if they desire to learn anything” 1) “let them ask their own husbands at home” 2) “for it is improper for a woman to speak in church” If this outline is correct, Paul would be forbidding women to speak in church only in regard to the judgment or evaluation of prophetic utterances. Evidently he believed that this entailed an exercise of authority restricted to men only (see