Shamefacedness for Godly Women
Good day sister saints! I'm joyous to be here again, one more day to send an encouraging note out on the internet to press you on!!! Today I want to dig into ' shamefacedness ' and the depths of it as it's a character trait of a godly woman that seems to be almost forgotten today. Shamefaced is found in 1 Timothy 2:9... 1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; ' Shamefacedness ' means: In case you can't read all that small writing I'll summarize it: ( through the idea of downcast eyes) bashfulness that is (towards men) awe, reverence, shame, honor, modest. The whole point of 1 Timothy 2 is to show how a woman is do adorn herself. Not from the outside but from the inside with shamefacedness and sobriety. I now want to go back over the passage inserting the greek meanings of the key words. In like manner also, that t...