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Gagged, Forbidden, and Restricted?

Do these terms fit what Paul says about women in 1 Timothy 2?

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Scot McKnight
Feb 23, 2021
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The words “gagged, forbidden, and restricted” come from a statement by my professor, James D.G. Dunn, in his commentary on Pastoral Epistles, where he wonders aloud what to do with a text like this in a world like ours.

So here we go again, with the keen realization that this text triggers some women about how they’ve been treated in churches by complem…

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