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Act_of_Reparation

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9. Right.

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #3)

Mon May 7, 2018, 01:09 PM

May 2018

Because the notion that women should submit to men would be totes out of place in the 1st century CE. The Romans and Greeks were known far and wide for their egalitarianism. Obviously a mistranslation.

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