Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-m6dg7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T22:03:36.889Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

1 Tim 2.12 and the Use of ουδε to Combine Two Elements to Express a Single Idea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2008

PHILIP B. PAYNE
Affiliation:
PO Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020–0580, USA

Abstract

Paul typically uses ουδε to convey a single idea, as do the two closest syntactical parallels to 1 Tim 2.12. In the overwhelming majority of Paul's and the NT's ουκ + ουδε + αλλα syntactical constructions, ουδε joins two expressions to convey a single idea in sharp contrast to the following αλλα statement. Furthermore, the earliest known commentary on 1 Tim 2.12, Origen's, treats it as a single prohibition. Accordingly, the most natural reading of 1 Tim 2.12 conveys, ‘I am not permitting a woman to teach and [in combination with this] to assume authority over a man’.

Type
Articles
Copyright
2008 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)