“Let women learn in silence with all subjection” ([1 Timothy ii, 11]).
“That she [woman] does not crouch today where St. Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St. Paul, and rise superior to his God.”—Helen Gardener.
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Did Paul encourage learning?
“The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” ([1 Corinthians iii, 19]).
“Knowledge puffeth up” ([viii, 1]).
“If any man be ignorant let him be ignorant” ([xiv, 38]).
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy” ([Colossians ii, 8]).
“The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the danger of which to their own profession they, by a certain instinct, seem always to have perceived.”—Buckle.