When the woman was deceived, and then so readily sought to gratify her flesh, the Lord God passed sentence upon her and made self-gratification the ground of her punishment: “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee”. This being the woman’s portion as the consequence of sin, the reverse would have been her lot if she had remained obedient. She would have brought forth children without pain, and would have had fewer of them. She would also have escaped degradation and retained the equality enjoyed in the garden of Eden. The punishment was not inflicted simply as an individual sorrow, although the pain was personal and the subjection likewise; but the multiplication of woman’s conception became necessary from the altered circumstances of things in the earth which were to remain for the ensuing seven thousand years. In the war divinely instituted between the seeds of the Serpent and the Woman, there would be great loss of life; the population of the world would be greatly thinned, and great havoc would result from pestilence, famine and disease. It was to compensate for this waste, and yet maintain an increase so that the earth may be filled, that necessitated the woman’s multiplication of conception.
“We hear much in some parts of the world, of the political rights and equality of women with men; and of their preaching and teaching in public assemblies. We need wonder at nothing which emanates from the unenlightened thinking of sinful flesh. There is no absurdity too monstrous to be sanctified by unspiritualized animal intellect. Men do not think according to God’s thinking, and: therefore they run into the most unscriptural conceits, among which may be enumerated the political and social equality of women. Trained to usefulness, of cultivated intellect, and with moral sentiments purified by the nurture and admonition of the Lord’s truth, women are ‘helpmeets’ for the Elohim, and much too good for men of ordinary stamp.” The female sex is susceptible to this exaltation, though even women of this excellency, would be guilty of presumption and rebellion if they assumed equality of rank and rights, or authority over man.
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Author: W. G. Holton
Keywords: Oppression of women, Women priests, Women pastors, Women bishops, Women evangelists, Women in the church, Serving women, Women, Feminism, Anti feminism, misogynist, misogyny, Women to remain silent, Silent in the churches, Women should not teach, Women are not to teach men, Women to be in subjection, Sexist, Paul sexist, Sexism, Women of prominence, Chauvinism, Male chauvinism, Chauvinist, Male chauvinist, Deborah and Barak, Debra and Barak, Ezer Kenegdo, Helpmeet, Help mate, Helpmate, Role of women in the church, Role of woman in the church, Woman's role, Feminist, Equality of women, Equality of woman, Equality of the sexes, Female bishop, Women's role, Women's role in the church
Bible reference(s): Genesis 2:18, Genesis 2:20, Genesis 3:16, Judges 4, Romans 16:7, 1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Cor. 14:34-35, Gal. 3:28, Ephesians 5:22-24, Col 3:18, 1 Timothy 2:11-14, Titus 2:5, 1 Peter 3:1-6
Source: “Studies in Elpis Israel (11),” The Testimony, Vol. 39, No. 466, October 1969, pp. 373-4.
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