Was it John Calvin or Rick Appleton who was recently deposed from pastoral office? 1. On Women’s Inherent Inferiority and Subjection Expanded Quote: “On this account all women are born, that they may acknowledge themselves inferior in consequence of the superiority of the male sex. … For the woman was made subject to the man, as appears from the order of creation, and from the punishment inflicted on her for having seduced the man. … It is asked, whether he speaks of married women exclusively, for there are some that restrict to them what Paul teaches, on the ground that it does not belong to virgins to be under the authority of a husband. It is however a mistake, for Paul looks beyond this to God’s eternal law, which has made the female sex subject to the authority of men.” Full Citation: John Calvin, Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, translated by John Pringle, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1848), vol. 1, commentary on 1 C...
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