those silent women!
Bart Ehrman
behrman at email.unc.edu
Tue Oct 17 09:38:56 EDT 2000
The author of 1 Clement urges that "women show forth the gentleness of
their tongues through how they speak." There's a textual variant on
"through how they speak" (DIA THS FWNHS), which reads instead "through
their silence" (DIA THS SIGHS). Lightfoot prefers this reading; in fact
he restored it before there was MS evidence supporting it. In his
(*very*) brief discussoin of it he quotes some kind of proverb:
GUNAIXI KOSMON hH SIGH FEREI.
He doesn't say where this is from. Does anyone know?
-- Bart Ehrman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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