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To the Editor:

In your October 25 edition, a Hebron writer takes to task Patricia Truman of Hallowell. He calls her a "Biblical literalist" in her defense of the institution of marriage.

This writer says Truman is inconsistent and fails to follow all of the teachings of the Bible. Specifically, he calls her attention to the verses in one of Paul's letters in which Paul asserts "I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence."

Oh my! What a problem for Mrs. Truman! But wait, not so fast! Perhaps she and others who take the Word of God seriously may help out the writer from Hebron.

The Apostle did not claim the authority of Jesus in Paul's admonishing to women to keep silence. It was the first person singular. "I suffer not ... etc." He did not pretend that this particular admonition came from God.

It was Paul's idea. And then, conspicuously in another letter Paul wrote these words: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28.

Harvey Lord

Paris