A blog reader has asked if 1 Tim. 3:2 allows for women to be church elders. The reader is aware that the Greek phrase mias gunaikos andra ("one woman husband") was found to occur in an epitaph for a woman on a tombstone.
Does anyone know how widely this phrase referred to women as well as men?
What is the evidence, pro and con, that 1 Tim. 3:2 itself refers to both men and women?
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