child ́bâr-ing: Only in 1 Timothy 2:15: “She shall be saved through her (m “the”) child-bearing” (διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας, diá tḗs teknogonías). The reference is to the calling of woman as wife and mother, as her ordinary lot in life, and to the anxieties, pains and perils of maternity, as the culmination and representation of the penalties woman has incurred because of the Fall (Genesis 3:16). “She shall be saved by keeping faithfully and simply to her allotted sphere as wife and mother” (Dummelow). The preposition dia is not used here instrumentally, as though child-bearing were a means of her salvation, but locally, as in 1 Corinthians 3:15, “saved so as through fire,” where life is saved by rushing through the flames.
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Author: International Std. Bible Encyclopedia
Keywords: Child-Bearing, Nurse maid, Nursemaid, Giving birth
Source: James Orr (editor), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 5 volume set.
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