Phoebe

366.      Conybeare and Howson, in their Life of St. Paul, (p. 240), call attention to the use, in connection with Phoebe’s name, of two words associated together in technical legal matters, in Paul’s recommendation of her, which indicates that she was abroad on some important business with the courts,¾possibly in behalf of the church. Yet [...]

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Such “theology” is responsible for much “free thought” among justice loving persons

363.      Expositors of the Bible will never be able to understand, or to set forth a clear, consistent, correct interpretation of the Word of God as regards women until they abandon, once for all, the attempt to found the social, ecclesiastical and spiritual (as far as this life is concerned) status of Christian woman on [...]

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oikodespotes

368. Now let us again draw a contrast, between this word “to stand before” translated “rule,” when spoken of men, and a certain word translated “guide,” because spoken of women. Men often talk of the father and husband as the “final authority” in the home. What says St. Paul on the [...]

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