Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/Additional Canons 2/Canons/Canon LXX

Canon LXX.

are not permitted to speak at the time of the Divine Liturgy; but, according to the word of Paul the Apostle, &#8220;let them be silent.&#160; For it is not permitted to them to speak, but to be in subjection, as the law also saith.&#160; But if they wish to learn anything let them ask their own husbands at home.&#8221;

Notes.

Women are not permitted to speak in church.

&#8220;Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak,&#8221; is the passage referred to.&#160; 1 Cor. xiv. 34.