35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
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For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; …
For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-35)Here the apostle, 1. Enjoins silence on their women in public assemblies, and to such a degree that they must not ask questions for their own information in the church, but ask their husbands at home. They are to learn in silence with all subjection; but , says the apostle, I suffer them not to teach , 1 Tim. 2:11 , 12 . There is indeed an intimation (1 Cor. 11:5) as if the women sometimes did pra…
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