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Hephziba – Wife of King Hezekiah and mother of Manasseh, who undid Hezekiah's good works. II Kings [66] Herodia – Granddaughter of Herod the great, married her uncle Philip, divorced him to marry Philip's half brother Herod Antipas, mother of Salome. "Matthew" [67] Hodesh – one of the wives of Shaharaim I Chronicles [68]
Luther contends that, because of this verse and nearby verses in 1 Timothy, women should not speak or teach in public and must remain completely quiet in church, writing "where there is a man, there no woman should teach or have authority." [11] On this basis, parts of Lutheranism today do not allow women into church leadership.
These verses in the King James version read as follows "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
That this verse refers to Joseph as Mary's husband does not conflict or mean a change in circumstances from Matthew 1:18, where he is merely her betrothed.The betrothal of the period was a formal arrangement and the couple can reasonably be considered husband and wife while betrothed.
An 1880 Baxter process illustration of Revelation 22:17 by Joseph Martin Kronheim. The bride of Christ, or the lamb's wife, [1] is a metaphor used in number of related verses in the Christian Bible, specifically the New Testament – in the Gospels, the Book of Revelation, the Epistles, with related verses in the Old Testament.
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The word translated "help" or "helper" in Genesis 2 until quite recently was generally understood to subordinate a wife to her husband. The KJV translates it as God saying, "I will make a help meet for him". The first distortion was extrabiblical: the noun "help" and the adjective "meet" traditionally have been combined into a new noun, "helpmate".
Gomer (Hebrew: גומר, romanized: Gōmer) was the wife of the prophet Hosea (8th century BC), mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Hosea . English translations of Hosea 1:2 refer to her alternatively as a "promiscuous woman" , a "harlot" , and a "whore" but Hosea is told to marry her according to Divine appointment. She is also described ...