Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 46

46.&#160; That a woman ought to be silent in the church.

In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: &#8220;Let women be silent in the church. But if any wish to learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home.&#8221; Also to Timothy: &#8220;Let a woman learn with silence, in all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to be set over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve; and Adam was not seduced, but the woman was seduced.&#8221;