Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
que les femmes se taisent dans les assemblées, car il ne leur est pas permis d'y parler; mais qu'elles soient soumises, selon que le dit aussi la loi.
KJV
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
the word. Therefore the grace of the word is becoming to women. On the contrary, The Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 14:34 ): "Let women keep silence in the churches," and ( 1 Tim. 2:12 ): "I suffer not a woman to teach." Now this pertains especially to the grace of the word. Therefore the…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
angels; in like manner Divine things are announced to a woman by a man: wherefore the Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 14:34,35 ): "Let women keep silence in the churches . . . but if they would learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home." Therefore it seems that the mystery of the…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
nesses." Now they bore witness by preaching in public: and this is unbecoming in women, according to 1 Cor. 14:34 : "Let women keep silence in the churches": and 1 Tim. 2:12 : "I suffer not a woman to teach." Therefore, it does not seem becoming for Christ's Resurrection to be ma…
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