The Apostle especially urged intercessory prayer, because it meant so much to himself. Three different words are used of prayer, because there are so many ways of approaching God. It is our duty to pray for those in authority, and to seek after a calm and quiet life in all godliness and gravity. It was most important that Christians should not be suspected of revolutionary designs or civic turbulence. If they had to suffer, it must be only on account of their religious faith. The solidarity of our race is the reason for our wide-embracing supplications. The whole race is one in the creation of God and the ransom of Christ; we are therefore one with all men, and should express in prayer the common sins and sorrows of mankind.
The men were bidden to lead in public prayer, and to see that the hands they uplifted were clean, while the women joined quietly after the Eastern fashion. There was nothing revolutionary in Paul's teaching. He was content, in minor matters, to conform to the usages of his age, though promulgating doctrines which would ultimately revolutionize the position of womanhood. A holy married life, with the bearing and training of children, is, as a rule, the appointed path for woman, and this will lead to their salvation through faith in the Holy One who was born in Bethlehem. [source]
Chapter Summary: 1 Timothy 2
1Instruction to pray and give thanks 9How women should be attired 12They are not permitted to teach 15They shall be saved if they continue in faith
In silence [ἐν ἡσυχίᾳ] See on peaceable, 1 Timothy 2:2. Rev. renders quietness; but the admonition concerns the behavior of women in religious assemblies. Comp. 1 Corinthians 14:34. The word is used in the sense of silence, Acts 22:2: with the broader meaning quietness in 2 Thessalonians 3:12. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 1 Timothy 2:11
Galatians 2:5We gave place by subjection [εἴξαμεν τῇ ὑποταγῇ] We, Paul and Barnabas. Gave place or yielded, N.T.oBy the subjection which was demanded of us. The noun only in Paul and the Pastorals, and always in the sense of self- subjection. Comp. 2 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Timothy 2:11; 1 Timothy 3:4. [source]
1 Timothy 2:9In like manner that women [οσαυτως γυναικας] ουλομαι Boulomai must be repeated from 1 Timothy 2:8, involved in οσαυτως hosautōs (old adverb, as in Romans 8:26). Parry insists that προσευχομενας proseuchomenas (when they pray) must be supplied also. Grammatically that is possible (Lock), but it is hardly consonant with 1 Timothy 2:11-15 (White). [source]
What do the individual words in 1 Timothy 2:11 mean?
Greek Commentary for 1 Timothy 2:11
Old word from ησυχιος hēsuchios In N.T. only here, Acts 22:2; 2 Thessalonians 3:12. [source]
Late word (Dion. Hal., papyri), in N.T. only here, 2 Corinthians 9:13; Galatians 2:5. See 1 Corinthians 14:33-35. [source]
Comp. 1 Corinthians 14:35. [source]
See on peaceable, 1 Timothy 2:2. Rev. renders quietness; but the admonition concerns the behavior of women in religious assemblies. Comp. 1 Corinthians 14:34. The word is used in the sense of silence, Acts 22:2: with the broader meaning quietness in 2 Thessalonians 3:12. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for 1 Timothy 2:11
We, Paul and Barnabas. Gave place or yielded, N.T.oBy the subjection which was demanded of us. The noun only in Paul and the Pastorals, and always in the sense of self- subjection. Comp. 2 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Timothy 2:11; 1 Timothy 3:4. [source]
ουλομαι Boulomai must be repeated from 1 Timothy 2:8, involved in οσαυτως hosautōs (old adverb, as in Romans 8:26). Parry insists that προσευχομενας proseuchomenas (when they pray) must be supplied also. Grammatically that is possible (Lock), but it is hardly consonant with 1 Timothy 2:11-15 (White). [source]