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What does it Mean to Be 'Saved by Childbirth' (1 Timothy 2.15)?

Department of Religious Studies Trinity Western University, 7600 Glover Road Langley, BC V3A 6H4. Canada

After discussing several ideologically based interpretations of 1 Tim. 2.15, this article examines six primary lexical and grammatical phenomena in the text: the subject of the verb with respect to 'the woman' of v. 14, the sense of the verb , the denotation of the term oo, the function of the preposi tion with the genitive case, the shift in number of the verbs from singular to plural, and the use of the third-class conditional construction. The article concludes that the author of I Timothy apparently believed that for the woman who abides in faith, love and holiness, her salvation will come by the bearing of children.

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