Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:
If anyone is despised in such a gathering (1 Corinthians 6:4), if people come together in it (1 Corinthians 11:18; cf. 1 Corinthians 14:23 and Acts 14:27), if women are to keep silent in it (1 Corinthians 14:34), if it is not to be burdened (1 Timothy 5:16), these things apply to the Church as a whole and not merely to the local congregation (Vol. III 506).