διδάσκειν : This refers of course only to public teaching, or to a wife's teaching her husband. In Titus 2:3 St. Paul indicates the natural sphere for woman's teaching. In 1 Cor. women are forbidden λαλεῖν in the Church. The choice of terms is appropriate in each case.

αὐθεντεῖν ἀνδρός : dominari in virum, to have dominion over (R.V.). “The adj. αὐθεντικός is very well established in the vernacular. See Nägeli, p. 49 … the Atticist warns his pupil to use αὐτοδικεῖν because αὐθεντεῖν was vulgar (κοινότερον) … αὐθέντης is properly one who acts on his own authority, hence in this context an autocrat” (Moulton and Milligan, Expositor, vii., vi. 374).

ἀλλʼ εἶναι : dependent on some such verb as βούλομαι implied, as opposed to οὐκ ἐπιτρέπω.

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