Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 14:34

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 14:34


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This rule must be restrained to ordinary prophesyings; for certainly, if the Spirit of prophecy came upon a woman in the church, she might speak. Anna, who was a prophetess, in the temple gave thanks to the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem, Luk_2:38: and I cannot tell how Philip’s daughters prophesied, if they did not speak in the presence of many, Act_21:9. The reason that is given why women should keep silence, is, because



they are commanded to be under obedience. This apostle speaketh much the same thing, 1Ti_2:11,12, because it looked like a usurping authority over the man; which indeed is true, if it had been the ordinary practice of women to speak in the assemblies of the church; but not so, if some particular women sometimes spake upon an extraordinary impulse or impression. The law to which the apostle here refers, is thought to be that, Gen_3:16, where the woman is commanded to be subject to her husband, and it is said, that he should rule over her; yet that law did neither restrain Miriam from prophesying, Exo_15:20, nor yet Huldah, to whom Josiah himself sent, 2Ch_34:22, of whom it is also said, that she dwelt in the college. But setting aside that extraordinary case of a special afflatus, it was, doubtless, unlawful for a woman to speak in the church.