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Jason,<br><br>Interesting approach. [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img] However, methinks one would be hard pressed to show that this "praying" and/or "prophesying" done by women refers strictly to the ecstatic gifts, which passed away at the close of the Canon and the death of the Apostles. If one could establish that prayer was an ecstatic "gift" and restrict "prophesy" to those mentioned elsewhere, you might have a reasonable and possible alternative interpretation. Of course, your explanation wouldn't account for Paul's disdain for men having long hair, which is against "nature". And thus, I see your suggestion as creating perhaps more problems than it hopes to resolve. <br><br>In His Grace,