Women ministries - An HF post from long ago

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> "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I 
> suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the 
> man, but to be in silence." - Tim 2:11-12

It's been a while since I've studied this out so I would add a
qualification that I might be wrong (!), but it seems when I looked all
this up in Strong's one time the words for "woman" (Greek _gune_) in
these passages implied "wife."

Thus, "I suffer not a woman... to usurp authority over the man" could
be referring to the specific case of the wife having authority over her
husband rather than in a generic sense of any woman having authority
over any man.  If this is true, it seems that the notion that *any* man
could have authority over *any* woman is not supported by Scripture.

Thus, it would be impossible for, say, Sis Kathy Barnett to usurp
authority over me *since I have no authority over her, as I am not her
husband*.

Richard Masoner
richardm@cd.com