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Originally Posted by nwlife
How can we read into Isa.3:12 that a woman won't be teaching several hundred years later? It has no bearing on if precillia actually taught or not. In this case it is grasping at straws looking for anything to say, no she didn't. it just isn't recorded what exactly she did.
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Because it sets a precedent, and therefore it shows Biblical feelings toward female government.
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Originally Posted by nwlife
But it does say acts 18:26 "And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. "
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Ahh...it's a couple, the text is speaking of more than one person.
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Originally Posted by nwlife
Or was the word they, mistranslated? There is not break inbetween the actions listed. no new subject listed to do the new action of expounding (teaching)...so yes it can be infered that she did teach, along side of her husband. I don't see her doing it on her own, but I don't see her just sitting there knitting or something else either. It says THEY, so they includes precilla.
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The man taught the men.
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