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2, Paul repeatedly used a different Greek word (a derivative of anthropos) when referring to man-
kind, which includes women (verses 1, 4, 5).

A woman has never been given the right to teach over a man in an authoritarian way. The
broad principle applies to the situation anywhere that Christians have assembled for spiritual mat-
ters, whether it be at a church building, a home, a convention hall, or a lectureship at a Christian
college. No man, not even an elder, can give the woman permission to violate God’s law.

Though women are forbidden to do a certain type of teaching, yet they are commanded to
teach (Titus 2:3-5), and women taught — not publicly, not exercising dominion over men — in
New Testament times, teaching men privately (Acts 18:24-26), other women (Acts 21:9; Titus
2:3-5), children (2 Timothy 1:5; 3:14, 15), and their husbands (1 Peter 3:1).

Women also speak and teach when they participate in singing (Ephesians 5:19; Colossians
3:16). Women are not commanded to be absolutely quiet in the assembly, as “silence” (KJV) or
“quietness” (ASV) in 2 Timothy 2:12 means “silent attention.”

Instead of bemoaning YEHOVAH’s chain of authority and dwelling on what women cannot
do, all should realize that there is more that women can do than what YEHOVAH does not permit
them to do in the church. Women today are in the ministry — they are servants — if they serve the
church (Romans 16:1) and do good works (1 Timothy 5:10); the same is equally true of men who,
though are not themselves elders, deacons, or preachers, also work for the church.

Some of the works which women may do include: write Bible class material, visit the
sick--shut-ins — weak members — newcomers, see that recreation through the home is provided
for the church's youth, prepare the Passover meal, assist women at baptism, grade Bible corre-
spondence courses, teach women's and children's classes, office work (bulletins, etc.), clean the
church building, help evangelize, baby-sit for other church workers and arrange bulletin boards.
Only one's imagination limits the work which women may do in the church, yet within the bounds
set forth by YEHOVAH in his Word.

Even much of what the church overall or a family does is done by the industry of women;
hospitality depends on wives; benevolence is often the direct result of women seeing to the needs,
carrying the items to the needy, or buying the canned goods for a church pantry. Women are indis-
pensable, but in the role YEHOVAH ordained for them! So is it with men also — as YEHOVAH
ordained.

We are often asked why the giants, The Guildhall Giants "And on the rising side of the
popularly called Gog and Magog, Thames he (Brutus) built a city
were set up in London's ancient which he called Troy-Novant or
Guildhall. Many writers on London traditions have New Troy (now London), and in it a palace, at the gates
suggested that they represent the last two giants in of which he fixed the effigies of those two giants;
Britain, who fought against Brutus the Trojan on his ar- which is now supposed to be where Guildhall stands.
rival. It would seem that there was a particular reason After this he established his kingdom in glory, and
for placing them in that exact spot, according to this reigned prosperously thirty years, making his subjects
quotation from the 18th-century book The History of bear the name of Brutans; now corruptly called Brit-
Hector Prince of Troy, of which one copy is extant, in ains." -- Wake Up! September 1979.
the Pierpoint Morgan Libary, New York:

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