Richard Hess argues that “the view that the man’s creation before the woman’s implies his authority over her cannot be sustained by study of the text of Genesis 2, the context of Genesis 1–3, the comparative literature of the ancient Near East or the invocation of putative customs of primogeniture in ancient Israel.”46 But Paul cites the fact that man was made first, along with the facts that woman was made from man and for man, as reasons for the ordering of ministry according to gender in the church.