but she will be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
But are there not historical examples of strong-willed, powerful women, impossible to deceive, who now and again have held the rod of empire or the affairs of state with great ability?  Yes indeed!  But exceptions do not make the rule.  Wherever such leadership exists in women, it is still a masculine trait; and wherever the opposite of it appears in men, it remains a feminine trait.  Nature produces a two-headed calf now and then, but that is not the rule.