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723. The Church has often told woman we might say very loudly that Paul commanded her to “keep silence in the churches.” The Church has told woman very softly, or not at all, that Jesus Christ obliged one woman to not keep silence, but to proclaim before a great multitude, made up largely of men, that Christ had redeemed her from that very “curse,” as it has been called, which is supposed by some to lie at the base of the doctrine of silence and subordination for women, and which was the pretext for her original exclusion from service at the altar, see par. 673.

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