This is from Ellicot’s Commentary on 1 Timothy 2:12:

“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. The whole purpose of these weighty admonitions of the great founder of the Gentile Churches relegates Christian women to their own legitimate sphere of action and influence–the quiet of their own homes. St. Paul caught well the spirit of his Master here. He raised once and for ever the women of Christ out of the position of degradation and intellectual inferiority they had occupied in the various pagan systems of the East and West, and taught with all the weight of an Apostle–of an accredited teacher of divine wisdom–that woman was a fellow-heir with man of the glories of the kingdom,–where sex would exist no longer; but while teaching this great and elevating truth, St. Paul shows what is the only proper sphere in which woman should work, and in which she should exercise her influence and power; while man’s work and duties lay in the busy world without, woman’s work was exclusively confined to the quiet stillness of home. The Apostle then proceeds to ground these injunctions respecting the duties in public and private of the two sexes upon the original order of creation, and upon the circumstances which attended the fall.”

I have come to believe that women are not to teach in the churches but to “learn in silence with all subjection” (1 Timothy 2:11). They are to teach their children in their homes, and the aged women are to teach the younger women biblical womanhood as clearly stated in Titus 2:3-5. This is why I am opposed to female preachers and Women’s Bible studies. For some reason, women have been led to believe it’s okay for women to teach in the churches which has led to the proliferation of female Bible teachers and preachers. This isn’t biblical. Women are to be keepers at home.

I am thankful for the commentaries of old who weren’t influenced by the feminist agenda. I prefer to take God’s Word literally rather than liberally.

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blaspheme.
Titus 2:5

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