# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S562
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562

INTERSYNODICAL AND DOCTRINAL MATTERS

were in the hands of the male” (St. Louis ed., II], 64). The entrance
of sin made this subordination of woman to’ man more or less
burdensome, both because of her sinful nature and that of sinful
man. But in itself this subordination can be, and in Christian
marriage, is, woman’s glory, pride, and joy, as being God’s specific
gift to her for her own happiness and the welfare of our race.

6. The violation of God’s creative order causes Paul’s shock at
woman's speaking in the church (“it is disgraceful”). The church
is not a sociological institution like the public schools; it is God’s
temple, God’s house, with the responsibility of proclaiming God’s
whole revealed will to the world, including His Order of Creation
with its implications for ethics and with centrality of marriage in
that Order. Without headship there can be no real marriage, and
that headship belongs to man. Paul bids us see a surrender of
that headship when in public services man sits at the feet of woman
as his spiritual directrix, publicly guiding the church, for that is
implied in her speaking.

7. Paul does not use the term “custom” in the present con-
nection. He is not speaking of something that is alterable. He says
with a sense of authority: “What I am writing to you is a command
of the Lord” (v. 37). That covers all the principles and directives
from 1 Cor. 11:2 to the end of Ch. 14. He makes a clear claim to
inspiration and asserts that the test of a man’s “prophetic” stature
or of a man’s “spiritual” knowledge is the acceptance of these com-
mands. A church which professes to accept Scriptures as its only
rule and norm of faith and practice will never have a good con-
science if it fails to follow “all the churches of the saints” in the
Apostolic age in the practice inculcated in the passage here dis-
cussed. See II, F, 1.

E. 1 Timothy 2:11-15 (Zerbst, pp. 51—56).

(11) “Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
(12) But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over
a man, but to be in quietness. (13) For Adam was first formed,
then Eve; (14) and Adam was not beguiled but the woman being
beguiled hath fallen into transgression; (15) but she shall be saved
through her childbearing [King James Version ‘in child-bearing’],
if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety”
(American Standard Version of 1902).

1. Vv. 11-13 repeat in somewhat different terms the content
of 1 Cor. 14:33 b-38. See above, II, D. There is the same right
ungrudgingly granted woman to “learn” — something that was not
thus granted in Judaism. Cf. Zerbst, pp. 48, 55, et al. There is the
same prohibition of woman’s functioning in a teaching capacity

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