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demand that he alone should be heard, but should do his en- deavour to hear others also, while they are speaking, and should learn from them, what communications they have received [from God] in preference to himself : subjection is shown by keeping silence and learning,1 ver. 34, 35, [1 Tim. ii. 12]. Every act of teaching involves a degree of absolute authority [authentiam] : they are subject , he says ; not merely they ought to be subject. The Spirit of God teaches the prophets this.
33. 'rig, as) This concluding clause is very like that of the next portion, ver. 36.2
34. A / yum the woman) Paul uses the same expression,
1 Tim. ii. 11, 12, and yet it was expedient, that this should be written especially for the Corinthians; comp, note at xi. 16. — u/Jjuv sv rcug sxxXririaig) in your church assemblies ; when there are men present, that can speak. — eKirirpanrai) it is committed [i per- mitted,, Engl. Vers.] — vKordMiffOai, to be subject) so as to submit their own will to that of another, Gen. iii. 16. The application (desire) of the woman is to her husband and that too as
to her lord. — xa/) also ; comp. ix. 8, note.
35. MaOe/v, to learn) by speaking. — OsXoutiv, they wish) This is the figure3 occupatio. —id/oug) their own , rather than others. — s^epurdrutrccv) let them ask. It was the exclusive privilege of the men to put questions in the assembly. — h Hxkr\6icj) in the as- sembly either civil or sacred. — XuXs? i/, to speak) either in teaching or asking.
36. 3j, 75) Latin an — an ? [which is used in the second part of a disjunctive interrogation] You, Corinthians, (likewise you, Romans) are neither first nor alone. But women are also else- where silent.
37. npo<pijry;g , a prophet) The species ; spiritual , the genus.
1 This is the translation according to the printing of the London Ed., 1855 ; but according to the Tubingen Ed., 1773, and the Berlin Ed., 1855, which were afterwards consulted, the translation is as follows : — “ But not to de- mand that he alone should be heard, but to endeavour to hear others also, while they are speaking, and to learn from them what they have received more than he himself, is the subjection of a man who is silent and is learning.” — T.
2 In both alike there is an appeal to the usage of other churches. — Ed.
3 See Append. Anticipating a reply or objection which might be made by a supposed opponent. — T.
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