It may not be interpreted as implying a general rule, prohibiting women from teaching for all time to come. The Church acknowledges this interpretation. Modern Church Law allows women to teach in church. Middleton's replies to the arguments in favour of women's ordination. Paul does not speak about merit in Galatians 3,27-28, but about a real equality of status in Christ.
Women therefore have the same eminence as men, and can be ordained.
Middleton shows his ignorance of history. Today we know better. Women deacons were sacramentally ordained, as the ordination rituals of early centuries show. In some parts of Europe women were also ordained as priests. Women were prophetesses, but a prophetess has no authority over men.