Moderation and sanity

[py3ak]

The great commentator on 1 Peter, Robert Leighton, in the context of expounding 1 Peter 3:3-4 makes some helpful remarks which inadvertently show that the battle over the sexes in North American Christianity has suffered from some amount of extremism on both ends.

The particular grace the Apostle recommends, is particularly suitable to his subject in hand, the conjugal duty of wives; nothing so much adorning their whole carriage as this meekness and quietness of spirit. But it is, withal, the comeliness of every Christian in every estate. It is not a woman's garment or ornament, improper for men. There is somewhat (as I may say) of a particular cut or fashion of it for wives towards their husbands, and in their domestic affairs; but men, all men, ought to wear of the same stuff, yea, if I may so speak, of the same piece, for it is in all one and the same spirit, and fits the stoutest and greatest commanders. Moses was a great general, and yet not less great in this virtue, the meekest man on earth.

 

[Andrew35]

The great commentator on 1 Peter, Robert Leighton, in the context of expounding 1 Peter 3:3-4 makes some helpful remarks which inadvertently show that the battle over the sexes in North American Christianity has suffered from some amount of extremism on both ends.

I think the same can be said re. all virtues.

We often associate courage with masculinity for example, and I think rightfully so. Yet there's nothing unfeminine about a woman who shows courage in the face of adversity. Quite the contrary. If small minds can't get their heads around this, so much the worse for them.