Thank you for the object lesson in WHY women should not be allowed to usurp authority over the man and attempt to teach. To argue that it was the Corinthian church that was telling women to be silent is absurd.
1 Cor. 14:34 is clearly an Pauline admonition as the verses above it. This is in harmony with what Paul told
Timothy 1 Tim. 2:11.
Witht hat said let me say I agree there were women preachers in ancient times. In fact Irenaeus speaks of some:
Irenaeus Against Heresies
Book I
Chapter XIII
[Marcus] handing mixed cups to the women, he bids them consecrate these in his presence. When this has been done, he himself produces another cup of much larger size than that which the deluded woman has consecrated, ) and pouting from the smaller one consecrated by the woman into that which has been brought forward by himself, he at the same time pronounces these words…
Irenaeus lets us know there were women preachers among heretics. Origen tells us this was common among the polytheistic heathens:
Origen
Book VII
Chapter VI
Jupiter, "who rules over wintry Dodona, where his prophets have ever unwashed feet, and sleep upon the ground," has rejected the male sex, and, as Celsus observes, employs the women of Dodona for the prophetic office.
I could also document the oracles of Delphi but it is pointless. There were women preachers among heathen and heretics but NOT in the church of God. Here is a quote from the Apostolic Constitutions:
Book III
VI. We do not permit our "women to teach in the Church," but only to pray and hear those that teach; for our Master and Lord, Jesus Himself, when He sent us the twelve to make disciples of the people and of the nations,
did nowhere send out women to preach, although He did not want such. For there were with us the mother of our Lord and His sisters; also Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Martha and Mary the sisters of Lazarus; Salome, and certain others. For, had it been necessary for women to teach, He Himself had first commanded these also to instruct the people with us. For "if the head of the wife be the man..."
Book III
IX. Now, as to women's baptizing, we let you know that there is no small peril to those that undertake it. Therefore we do not advise you to it; for it is dangerous, or rather
wicked and impious. For if the "man be the head of the woman," and he be originally ordained for the priesthood, it is not just to abrogate the order of the creation, and leave the principal to come to the extreme part of the body. For the woman is the body of the man, taken from his side, and subject to him, from whom she was separated for the procreation of children. For says He, "He shall rule over thee." For the principal part of the woman is the man, as being her head.
Edited to add:
It is also painfully obvious that some do not know the difference between "preaching/teaching" and the gifts of the Spirit.
Nice to know God has "old thinking" since he had ample opportunity to appoint women to the priestly office under the Levitivcal priesthood yet failed to do so. Again how absurd.
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