ACC ~ 1 Timothy 3 v11

WOMEN DEACONS. CHRYSOSTOM: Some have thought that this is said of women generally, but it is not so, for why should he introduce anything about women to interfere with his subject? He is speaking of those who hold the rank of deaconesses. HOMILIES ON 1 TIMOTHY 11.

WOMEN IN GENERAL. AMBROSIASTER: Paul does not refer here to women deacons, since these are not allowed in the church. It is heretics who have such persons. The reference here is to women in general. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY.

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