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DISRUPTIVE WOMEN IN CORINTH? Some evangelical feminists claim that Paul told the women in Corinth to “keep silent” because they were disrupting the church services Several egalitarians claim that the reason Paul wrote that “the women should keep silent in the churches” (1 Cor. 14:34) was that women were being disorderly and disrupting the church services at Corinth. Perhaps they were rudely shouting questions to their husbands (or to other men) seated across the room, or perhaps (according to a variant of this posi-tion) even giving loud shouts characteristic of near-ecstatic worship. Advocates of this interpretation say that Paul wanted to stop these disruptions and restore order to the service.
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