And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
Ver. 35. Ask their husbands] Who therefore must dwell with them according to knowledge, 1 Peter 3:7, and be manly guides unto them in the way to heaven. The master's breast must be the household's treasury.
For it is a shame for women, &c.] She was a singular example that taught the Greek and Latin tongues at Heidelberg, A.D. 1554; her name was Olympia Fulvia Morata, an Italian, of the city of Ferrara. Ancient histories indeed make mention of one Aratha, who read openly in the schools at Athens 25 years, made 40 books, and a hundred philosophers to her scholars. Leoptia likewise wrote against Theophrastus; Corinna often contended with Pindarus in versifying.