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| − | God's woman, could attach himself and be born as a | + | God's woman, ar putea să se atașeze și să se nască ca un |
| − | man and become the Savior Jesus Christ. What kind
| + | om și devine Mântuitorul Iisus Cristos. Ce soție a fost Eva pentru Adam în afara grădinii Edenului, nu avem detalii ca să arătăm. În Eden ea s-a îndepărtat de a-i fi un adevărat ajutor . Ea și-a folosit influența pentru căderea lui, prin faptul că nu i-a recunoscut poziția prioritară, ci și-a hotărât cursul fără să-l consulte mai întâi pe el ca fiind cel căruia i-a fost dată legea lui Dumnezeu, iar apoi influiențându-și soțul să se alăture ei în neascultare. Așa cum spune proverbul: „O soție bună este o onoare pentru soțul ei: o soție nerușinată îi i-a toată puterea”. (Prov. 12: 4, Moffatt) Prin cursul ei Eva nu și-a păstrat onoarea și nu și-a câștigat respectul pentru sine. Regula de acțiune pe care a urmat-o atât față de Dumnezeu, cât și față de bărbat, a făcut-o ca un cancer în oasele omului. Este împotriva aceleiași reguli de acțiune de care fiicele ei trebuie să se păzească dacă nu vor să eșueze să câștige viața veșnică pe care Dumnezeu a deschis-o pentru omenire prin Sămânța femeii sale.}} |
| − | of wife Eve was to Adam outside of the garden of
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| − | Eden we have no details to show. In Eden sl1e had
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| − | departed from being a real help to him. She used her
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| − | influence to his downfall, by not recognizing his
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| − | priority of position but deciding her course without
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| − | first consulting him as the one who had been given
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| − | God's law and by then influencing her husband to
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| − | join her in disobedience. As the proverb says: "A
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| − | good wife is an honour to her husband: a shameless
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| − | wife rots all his strength away."
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| − | (Prov. 12: 4,
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| − | Moffatt) By her course Eve did not retain honor or
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| − | win respect for herself. The rule of action that she
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| − | followed hoth toward God and toward man made her
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| − | like a cancer in the man's bones. It is against this
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| − | same rule of action that her daughters must guard
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| − | if they do not want to fail of gaining enrlasting life
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| − | that God has opened up for Immunkind through the
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| − | Seed of his leGman.
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| − | 11 In keeping with the Creator's original purpose
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| − | in prodding woman, her effort should always be to
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| − | help mar:. But noting her place in God's arrangement
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| − | and notiJ1g the influence she ,Yields with man, Satan
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| − | the Devil has made it his business to use her in influ-
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| − | encing man to depart from obedience to Jehovah
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| − | God. :JIany women with a fear of God and with faith
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| − | in the wisdom of his arrangements han! nobly resist-
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| − | ed the crafty effort of the Serpent to use them
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| − | wrongly to man's hurt. These have gained respect
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| − | of Gael-fearing men, and God's Holy Record men-
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| − | tions a l:umber of them Y,:it1: honor. In God's arrange-
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| − | ment or human relations, woman's may be a second-
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| − | ary place; hers may be a subordinate role, but as a
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| − | wife, mother, sister, daughter, :ohe has heen priyi-
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| − | leged to wield a quiet, mode~t influence that ha:o been
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| − | powerful with man for good.
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| − | 12 The apostle Paul writes: "A man ought not to
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| − | wear anything on his head, for he is the image of
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| − | God and reflects his glory"; and that is WIlY God
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| − | dealt primarily with men and why his written 'YOI'd
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| − | relegates womankind to the bacl,ground and brings
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| − | comparatively few of them individually to view.
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| − | But those who have shown humble respect for the
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| − | arrangements of the )'Iost Hin;h God he, in his turn,
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| − | has respected. Thus, by being submissive, trustful,
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| − | and anxious to do their part within the sphere that
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| − | God pre~cribed for them, they have gained more of
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| − | God's favor and man's wholesome respect than if
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| − | they had tried to assert themselves and to take the
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| − | lead and force themselves into notice and into the
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| − | cOlllmanding position. They have realistically con-
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| − | sidered their sex and what God's Word has to say
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| − | regarding it. Without complaining at the inferior
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| − | role they have been assigned to play, they have made
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| − | the most of their situation to work with the male
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| − | 12. Why have women been submissive? and with what galn?
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| − | servants of God. Thus they have pleased God and
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| − | not gotten in the way of his good purpose. So he
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| − | has been pleased to use them in an honorable way.
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| − | 13 Abraham's wife Sarah is the first one after Eve
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| − | to be set forth by name as a right example to the
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| − | daughters of Eve. Sarah did not rebel against her
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| − | husband's being head over her because he ,vas the
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| − | man, did she¥ She did not feel deprived of rights and
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| − | so, feeling injured, refuse to lend him her help in
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| − | serving Jehovah's purposes, did she? To ask these
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| − | questions is to answer them. Now, Sarah's husband
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| − | believed. But a woman who believes and who wants
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| − | to help her unbelieving husband get the Kingdom
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| − | truth is under a great handicap if she is forbidden
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| − | to preach the truth to him or to discuss it with him.
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| − | Yet she still has a way of influencing him and possi-
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| − | bly winning him to the truth. How f By a proper sub-
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| − | jection to him as her man and also by letting hd
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| − | faithful Christian conduct speak for itself. By sub-
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| − | mission, sometimes even under an injustice, she
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| − | would not hinder or prejudice her husband against
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| − | accepting the truth. The apostle Peter is talking
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| − | about the merit of suffering unjustly according to
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| − | Goel's will wllen he discusses women with unbeliey-
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| − | ing husbands to show the silent influence they can
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| − | exercise, and then uses Sarah as an example of faith-
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| − | ful and helpful submission, saying:
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| − | H "For when Christ suffered for you, he left you
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| − | an example, and you must be following his footsteps.
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| − | In the same way, you wives must be submissiYe to
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| − | your husbands, so that even those who will not
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| − | belieye the ,Yard may be won over without a ,vord
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| − | by the behaviour of their wives, when they see how
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| − | cl1aste and reverent you are. You are not to adorn
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| − | vourselyes on the outside with braids of hair and
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| − | ~rnaments of gold and changes of dress, but imide,
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| − | in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle,
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| − | modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare
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| − | value. It was in this way that the holy women who
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| − | long ago hoped in God adorned themselves. They
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| − | were submissive to their husbands. Thus Sara obeyed
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| − | Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are dangh-
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| − | tel'S of Sara, if you do what is right and yield to no
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| − | panic."-l Pet. 2: 21 and 3: 1-6, Moffatt.
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| − | AN ABLE WIFE
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| − | 15 Now a woman who has to suffer at the hands of
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| − | her unbelieving mate because of her devotion to
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| − | God and his kingdom can return his evil with good
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| − | and be truly a good wife by helping him to the truth.
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| − | Certainly, then, a woman can be helpful to a believ-
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| − | ing husband all the more. Such a woman is a precions
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| − | possession for a married man to have. King Lemuel
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| − | gives a beautiful description of such a wife. He tells
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| − | how she, in submission to God's judgment that man
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| − | 13l4To whom does Peter use Sarah as an example? Why?
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| − | 1:;:17, (a) Whom could a bellevln1( wIre nelp all the more? (b) How
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| − | does Klng Lemuel describe such a 'lrtuous, able wife?
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