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Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Zech. xiv, 16-19), and 

 on these the rite of circumcision will be enforced (Ezek. xliv, 6-9). 



From Joel iii, 1-8, we learn that slavery, as a punishment, will 

 be enforced in the millennium. 



In I Tim. ii, 11-12, an epistle written some years later than that 

 to the Galatians, we read : " Let (the) woman learn in silence with 

 all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp 

 authority over (the) man, but to be in silence." 



From these passages we see that the passage quoted in Galatians 

 refers solely to the spiritual condition of believers, who in other 

 places are constantly referred to proleptically as if they were already 

 in the resurrection condition. 



Mr. Theodore Roberts desired to record his protest against 

 the lecturer's statement, on p. 4.0, that the restrictions on women 

 imposed in St. Paul's Epistles were transitory. He considered 

 St. Paul's words as having his Master's authority, and referred to 

 his saying, " Doth not even nature herself teach you ? " as proving 

 that the distinction between the sexes in the Christian community 

 were intended to be permanent. 



He considered that the lecturer's quotation from the Galatian 

 Epistle referred exclusively to what was to be spiritually realised. 



He instanced the message sent by the risen Lord to his disciples 

 by Mary Magdalene, " Go tell my brethren, I ascend to my Father 

 and your Father," etc., as showing the important part women had 

 in the Church, for this message was the Magna Charta of our 

 Christian blessing. 



Mr. W. HoSTE sends the following remarks : I have read Miss 

 Maynard's illuminating paper with the greatest interest. It affords 

 quite a hberal education on the question to a mere man. I cannot 

 help feeling, however, that her historical survey and philosophy of 

 things are better based than her Scriptural exegesis. I entirely 

 agree with her estimate, on p. 39, of the teaching of the apostle 

 Paul, only I would leave out the " far " and read " we never go 

 wrong," for he claims that " the things he writes are the command- 

 ments of the Lord " (i Cor. xiv, 37). I cannot, moreover, find any 

 hint that he understood his teaching, on the relations of the sexes, 

 to be temporary. He grounds them on two historical facts unaffected 

 by the lapse of time — the priority of man in Creation, and the 



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