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Ah, I see. Interesting point of view. I would also add that as a Christian theologian raised in a Hellenized city which had already become a center of Christian learning, he received both a good Greek education and a good Christian one. It's for good reasons that he ultimately rose to become the bishop of Caesarea about 312 AD and played a prominent role in the Nicene Council of 325 AD.
His 'magnum opus, the Ecclesiastical History', a narrative history of the Church and Christian community from the Apostolic Age to Eusebius' own time is a must read for any serious aspiring Christian historian.
And when you read through such histories by early church fathers; the contrast between the immutable foundation of orthodoxy passed from the Christ, to the apostles, and to the patriarchs with the raging devil outside that whipped up whirlwinds of fabricated heresies; the contrast with respect to them is striking [emphasis added].
Both men and women propagated and protected the truth and both men and women fabricated and propagated heresies in antiquity.
However, I am not going so far as to say that that 1 Timothy 2:12 (and related scriptures) were referring only to women that adhered with, propagated, and attempted to get leadership positions in the early church from whence to "teach" false doctrine though that was a material factor comprising much of the context behind Paul's instructions and we need to remember it.
His 'magnum opus, the Ecclesiastical History', a narrative history of the Church and Christian community from the Apostolic Age to Eusebius' own time is a must read for any serious aspiring Christian historian.
And when you read through such histories by early church fathers; the contrast between the immutable foundation of orthodoxy passed from the Christ, to the apostles, and to the patriarchs with the raging devil outside that whipped up whirlwinds of fabricated heresies; the contrast with respect to them is striking [emphasis added].
Both men and women propagated and protected the truth and both men and women fabricated and propagated heresies in antiquity.
However, I am not going so far as to say that that 1 Timothy 2:12 (and related scriptures) were referring only to women that adhered with, propagated, and attempted to get leadership positions in the early church from whence to "teach" false doctrine though that was a material factor comprising much of the context behind Paul's instructions and we need to remember it.
When I said that Eysebius was your best case, Iwas referring to the details you cited in your refutation.
Eusebius had a gentleness about him and a positive attitude toward women, which makes anything he says on the subject less subject to a charge of cultural bias.
Eusebius had a gentleness about him and a positive attitude toward women, which makes anything he says on the subject less subject to a charge of cultural bias.
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