Timothy and the silence of the woman

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Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 1Timoteo 2:11-12

There is reason to believe that Paul was referring women in general but at a given “donna” who she was in the church of Ephesus.

Here is the context:

In the context Paul is speaking of false teachers who are teaching false doctrine the church at Ephesus. (1Tim.1:3, 7)
Paolo says Timothy, in Ephesus, to stop the false teachers and not all women who are preaching the right doctrines. The apostle only says Timothy to stop the false teachers. (1Tim. 1:3)
Paul says that he too had been deceived and had been pardoned after having persecuted the church; and he had done because he had been deceived and was ignorant of the Truth. (1Tim 1:13, 16)
Paul makes the comparison between those who were teaching false doctrines – because they were ignorant and deceived. (1Tim. 1:3, 7) - And those who were deliberately deceiving (1Tim. 1:19, 20)
Paul mentions the deceivers (1Tim. 1:20) but it NEVER does the names of those who are deceived (1Tim.1:3, 6)
By Paul to Timothy instructions on how men and women should behave in churches when there are false teachers (1Tim. 2:1-10)
All Christians should pray for the lost, even those that are lost between them, who are the ones who teach false doctrines. (1Tim. 2:1-4)
Christian men of the congregation should not discuss with false teachers but only pray for them (1Tim. 2:8)
Women in the Church must be silent (1Tim. 2:10) praying also for them the false teachers (1Tim. 2:9 "Equally - in the same way" refers to prayer) and continue to produce good fruit (1Tim. 2:10) and not expect it to their appearance with showy clothes that will set a good example, but their works (1Tim. 2:8-10)
Then Paul goes brutally by men of God (plural, males and females) the single form of men and women and is the problem of false teaching and false teachers.
Before Paul's prohibition, It gives the solution to one of the problems in the church. Paul says that the woman (to that particular woman) the must be given the opportunity to learn. This identifies the problem, that she is not one of the deceivers, but one of the deceived, otherwise Paul would make his name, while she was in good faith. Paul never indicates the false doctors who cheat, just it makes their names, He is exposing them in public, and avoid them. His deception solution is education, in the sense of “learn the true doctrine” and never identify deceived.
Paul tells Timothy that does not allow the "woman" to teach “man ". This is out of context if you think that there Paul is trying to stop women of God to preach the correct doctrines. In the context of the prohibition can only be to hinder the false doctrines (1Tim. 2:12)
And 'the false teaching that Paul tries to hinder all women from preaching, because the problem in Timothy was only to stop the false teachers. In the next example, talking about the reason why the wrong teachings were to be hampered, Paul forbids that deceived woman talking, so it can not preach false doctrines (1Tim. 2:14).
quando site (man) e idea (donna) They are mentioned together of Scripture in any type of report, I am always translated "husband" and "wife". The verse 12 It should be translated as “a single wife” who teaches and influences “his husband”. In fact we think that way at Ephesus there was a pair of preachers, husband and wife, and since the woman was preaching false doctrine, Paul says “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence”. He would not have had cause to hinder it if she preached the right, the true Word of God, which leads people to salvation.
Paul never identifies the people calling her "a man" but he said “the men” and not the “donna” but “gives the”. And the context come out of a man and a woman specific (2 Cor. 12:2, 5; 1 Cor. 5:1) They are not appointed, that they are not called by name and surname, because his wife is one of the deceived and Paul never mentioned the name of the deceived, who are victims, but only that of deceivers.
Paolo, then, He explains the reason why the first man was not deceived and why the woman instead it was. This refers to Genesis to find out the reason of this thing finding that man was created before and was not deceived, and that woman was created later and was deceived (1 Tim. 2:13, 14 and Gen. 2:8, 19).
The grammatical form is used in 1 Timoteo 2:15 It requires the identification of a single woman to refer to "the woman" from verse 12. The form that appears in verse 15 referring to this woman, It can not be Eve, because time is the future and Eva was already dead when he was writing the epistle.
The only woman to the entire passage 15 one can only refer to the verse woman 12. A "you" and "they" are given instructions about his salvation and is given to the future. Moreover, it is obvious that it is a specific reference to a specific woman, since women have no salvation "childbearing", and what about those who can not have children? They will go to hell? Of course not.
1Tim. 2:15 It provides the answer to the question if the woman deceived can receive salvation even though she has been deceived by false doctrines. The woman in question, which refers to verse 12 the deceived Ephesian woman) It will be saved through the birth of the Messiah born of a woman, if they (reported to the 12 deceived Ephesian woman and her husband) continue in faith, love the Savior, and they will stay away from the false doctrines. This is like a deceived woman will be saved, and it applies to all deceived teachers.
concluding: Paul was not making a universal prohibition that forbids women to preach the right doctrines, It was just one of the false teachers hindering the assembly of Ephesus, from bringing her Christian husband in the garden toward the forbidden fruit.