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Salvation Through 'The' Birth
Many scholars, noting the Greek can be read as "the childbearing," believe this refers specifically to the birth of the Messiah. In this view, Paul is comforting women by highlighting the unique honor given to their sex: salvation for all humanity came through a child born of a woman, fulfilling the promise in Genesis 3:15.
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1 Timothy
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Timothy 2:15
18th Century
Theologian
Notwithstanding she shall be saved (1 Timothy 2:15). The promise in this verse is designed to alleviate the apparent severity …
AT Robertson
On 1 Timothy 2:15
Through the child-bearing (δια της τεκνογονιας). Late and rare word (in Aristotle). Here alone in N.T. From τεκνογονος and this fr…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Timothy 2:15
19th Century
Bishop
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing.—The last words are more accurately and forcibly rendered—through …
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Timothy 2:15
This verse is difficult to explain. Literally, the passage reads: “But she will be saved through the childbirth, if they continue in faith....” The…
John Calvin
On 1 Timothy 2:15
16th Century
Theologian
But she shall be saved. The weakness of their sex renders women more suspicious and timid, and the preceding statement might greatly terri…
John Gill
On 1 Timothy 2:15
17th Century
Pastor
Notwithstanding she shall be saved
Not Eve, though no doubt she is saved; since she had a sense of her sin, and sham…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Timothy 2:8–15
17th Century
Minister
Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray everywhere. We must pray in our closets, pr…