The Economy of Christ and the Salvation of Women
And then, the hidden and economic plan which is for the sake of us all, delivered him. And where the economic plan preceded, it said: Jesus Christ the man. It approached the God-befitting manner and did not say 'the one delivered,' but 'the one who gave himself as a ransom for all.' And he says writing to the Galatians in this way: 'But now I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). Why then are these things so skillfully crafted? And after running through all the harmony of the most God-befitting words spoken, having been added to the Jewish blindness and triviality, the children of Nestorius present the idea of the Christ being delivered or being raised by the Father, and they attempt through these, as it seems to them, not to show him to be a true God after he became truly man.
Regarding 1 Timothy 2:14-15: Because this woman has come into transgression, she will be saved through the children she will have and the descendants who will accomplish piety. What then, if she does not have children, or if she does have them but they are not males? But if indeed some are born, they are born of the common race; through which it is said universally that the transgression belongs to the female race. For if one is the cause for all of evil, how is it not fitting that the many should undo through the generation of the pious the evil that was brought upon them by one woman, since Christ has given the beginning of the undoing through himself? How then will the woman be saved? From the transgression and the disobedience; so that she must also have her own accomplishments, so that when the disobedience is forgiven, she is not condemned for other sins. It is not simply said to her: she will be saved through childbearing, but so that the mothers, having the children, may rear them in all piety and righteousness so as to be saved. To be saved through childbearing—not by means of which the woman transgressed, she is not judged, but she will be saved as a mother of those who obey, that is, according to the logic of obedience, since she has other own accomplishments through which she is saved. And this he says, as we have said, so that the mothers may rear the children in piety. From the reproach of the transgression she will be saved through childbearing. For this the apostle says, not to reproach, but to exhort toward piety and toward rearing the children in faith.
Regarding 1 Timothy 3:1: He did not say of honor, he did not say of wielding a spear, but of a good work, such as a good means, a good labor for the protection of the churches. If anyone aspires to the oversight, he desires a good work. He conceded not that of desire, but that of fitness, so that someone might equip himself for the fitness of oversight; rather, it is an exhortation to a good life, the entrance of desire, and just as a provision becomes for good works and the most beautiful life, so that glories have restrained the desire through...
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ἔπειτά γε τὸ ὑφειμένον καὶ οἰκονομικὸν τὸ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν πάντων παρέδωκεν αὐτόν. ἔνθα δὲ προηγήσατο τὸ οἰκονομικόν, καὶ εἶπεν· ἄνθρωπος Ἰησοῦς Χριστός. προσεπήνεγκε τὸ θεοπρεπὲς καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν «ὁ παραδοθεὶς» ἀλλ' ὁ δοὺς ἑαυτὸν ἀντίλυτρον ὑπὲρ πάντων. Γαλάταις δὲ γράφων φησὶν οὕτως· ὃ δὲ νῦν ζῶ ἐν σαρκί, ἐν πίστει ζῶ τῇ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντός με καὶ παραδόντος ἑαυτὸν ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ. τί τοίνυν τὰ οὕτως ἐντεχνέστατα; καὶ μετὰ πάσης ἁρμονίας τῆς θεοπρεπεστάτης εἰρημένα παρατρέχοντες καὶ τῇ Ἰουδαικῇ τυφλώσει καὶ σμικρολογίᾳ προστετηκότες οἱ Νεστορίου παῖδες προσφέρουσι τὸ παραδεδόσθαι τὸν Χριστὸν ἢ ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἐγηγέρθαι, καὶ πειρῶνται δι' αὐτῶν, ὡς αὐτοῖς δοκεῖ, μὴ θεὸν αὐτὸν ἀληθῆ δεικνύναι μετὰ τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὸν ἄνθρωπον ἀληθῶς. 1 Tim 2,14®15 Ἐπειδὴ αὕτη ἡ γυνὴ ἐν παραβάσει γέγονε, σωθήσεται διὰ τῶν ἐσομένων αὐτῇ τέκνων καὶ τῶν ἐκγόνων οἳ κατορθώσουσι τὴν 338 εὐσέβειαν. τί οὖν, ἂν μὴ γένωνται αὐτῇ παῖδες, ἢ γεννῶνται μέν, μὴ ἄρρενες δέ; ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ τισὶ γίνονται, ἀλλὰ τῷ κοινῷ γένει γίνονται· δι' ὧν καθολικῶς λέγεται ἡ παράβασις τῷ τῶν γυναικῶν γένει. εἰ γὰρ ἡ μία ταῖς πάσαις τοῦ κακοῦ αἰτία, πῶς οὐκ εἰκὸς τὰς πολλὰς διὰ τῆς τῶν εὐσεβῶν γενέσεως λῦσαι τὸ διὰ μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἐπαχθὲν αὐταῖς κακόν, δεδωκότος τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς λύσεως δι' ἑαυτοῦ; σωθήσεται οὖν ἡ γυνὴ ἐκ τίνος; ἐκ τῆς παραβάσεως καὶ τῆς παρακοῆς· ὥστε δεῖ καὶ ἴδια ἔχειν κατορθώματα, ἵνα μὴ τῆς παρακοῆς συγχωρηθείσης τὰ ἄλλα ἁμαρτήματα καταδικάζῃ αὐτήν. οὐχ ἁπλῶς δὲ εἴρηται αὐτῷ· σωθήσεται διὰ τεκνογονίας, ἀλλ' ἵνα αἱ μητέρες ἐπὶ τοῖς παισὶν ἔχουσαι τὸ σωθῆναι ἐν πάσῃ αὐτοὺς εὐσεβείᾳ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ ἀνατρέφωσιν. σωθῆναι δὲ διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας. οὐ δι' ὧν παρέβη ἡ γυνὴ κρίνεται, ἀλλὰ δι' ὧν μήτηρ γίνεται τῶν ὑπακουόντων σωθήσεται, τοῦτ' ἔστι κατὰ τὸν τῆς ὑπακοῆς λόγον, ἐπεὶ ἔχει ἄλλῃ ἴδια κατορθώματα δι' ὧν σώζεται. τοῦτο δὲ λέγει, καθὼς ἔφθημεν εἰπόντες, ἵνα αἱ μητέρες ἀνατρέφωσι τὰ τέκνα ἐν εὐσεβείᾳ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀνείδους τῆς παραβάσεως σωθήσεται διὰ τῆς τεκνογονίας. τοῦτο γάρ φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος, οὐχ ἵνα ὀνειδίσῃ, ἀλλ' ἵνα προτρέψηται εἰς εὐσέβειαν καὶ εἰς τὸ τὰ τέκνα ἀνατρέφειν ἐν πίστει. 1 τιμ 3,1 Οὐκ εἶπε τιμῆς, οὐκ εἶπε δορυφορίας, ἀλλὰ καλοῦ ἔργου, οἷον καλοῦ πόρου, καλοῦ καμάτου διὰ τὴν τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προστασίαν. εἴ τις ἐπισκοπῆς ὀρέγεται, καλοῦ ἔργου ἐπιθυμεῖ. ὑπενέδωκεν οὐ τὸ τῆς ὀρέξεως ἀλλὰ τὸ τῆς ἐπιτηδεύσεως, ἵνα τις καταρτίσῃ ἑαυτὸν εἰς ἐπιτηδειότητα ἐπισκοπῆς· μᾶλλον δὲ προτροπὴ βίου καλοῦ ἡ ἔνδοσις τῆς ὀρέξεως, καὶ ὥσπερ ἔφοδος γίνεται εἰς ἀγαθοεργίαν καὶ τὸν κάλλιστον βίον, ὥστε δόξας συγκεχωρηκέναι τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν δι'
About this text
Severian on Paul's first letter to Timothy: sound teaching, church order, and godliness.
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- Copy-text PG 65 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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