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Keep silence in the churches (εν ταις εκκλησιαις σιγατωσαν). The same verb used about the disorders caused by speakers in tongues …
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes
Let your women keep silence, etc. (1 Corinthians 14:34). This rule is positive: explicit and universal. There is no ambiguity …
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
But they are commanded to be under obedience.—Better (as in some of the best manuscripts), but let them be under obedience.
Expositor's Bible Commentary
Expositor'sBible Commentary
(29–33a) As for regulating prophesying in church, only a limited number—not over three—should speak, lest so much be said as to cause confusion. Th…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
It appears that the Church of the Corinthians was also infected with this fault: the talkativeness of women was allowed a place in the sacred assem…
John Gill
JohnGill
Let your women keep silence in the churches
This is a restriction of, and an exception to one of the above rules, th…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families sh…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
Here the Apostle mentions the people to whom the use of prophecy is forbidden. He does two things in this regard: first, he shows to whom the use o…
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A.T. Robertson
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