Fragments on Titus · §3 · Severianus of Gabala

Women called to clerical inheritance

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Severianus is commenting on Titus 1:16 and 2:3, explaining that Paul's calling older women reverent shows they are summoned to a clerical inheritance.

And this is what it means: “They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works” (Titus 1:16). Paul showed that he calls women to a share in the clerical inheritance, for he would not have called them reverent in Titus 2:3 otherwise.

Greek

καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι

τὸ θεὸν ὁμολογοῦσιν εἰδέναι, τοῖς δὲ ἔργοις ἀρνοῦνται. Tit 2,3 Ἔδειξεν ὅτι εἰς

κλῆρον τὰς γυναῖκας καλεῖ· οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἱεροπρεπεῖς εἶπεν.

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