Bible Dictionary: Woman: Weaker than Man

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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Whether the Manner and Order of the First Temptation was Fitting?
... woman was employed as an instrument of temptation in bringing about the downfall
of the man, both because the woman was weaker than the man, and consequently ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the manner and order.htm

And it Should be Remarked in Passing that this Force Upon a Man to ...
... person who always goes over to the weaker side; like ... But though the essential of
the woman's task is ... has, on the whole, been more conscious than man that she ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 18 and it should.htm

The Manner in which Man Conducted Himself for Fulfilling the First ...
... But the external, moving, per se, and principal cause was the devil, who, having
accosted the woman, (whom he considered weaker than the man, and who when ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation xxx the manner in.htm

Grace
... Giving honour to those who are weaker than yourself, just because they are weaker;
ready and ... way to other people; and, above all, to the woman who has ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xx grace.htm

The Woman of Samaria
... From that day, Judah became weaker and weaker, standing all ... his own word; and said
unto the woman, Now we ... been one of those ignorant Samaritans, than to have ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xxvi the woman of.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, "When Jesus had Finished These Sayings ...
... and one was not found to be the stronger and the other the weaker. ... but He is born
of a Virgin, and this is on the Woman's side ... We must obey God rather than man. ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxxvii on the words.htm

Acts xvi. 13, 14
... find each handling his proper tools; the woman also takes ... and wrath easily excites
such a man, and lust ... pay court to him, rendering his soul weaker than it is ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxv acts xvi 13.htm

2 Cor. Ix. 1
... up for us, if we shall come behind [863] and be weaker than a woman, a widow ... bed,
whose strength is from within; since without this, though a man should tear ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xix 2 cor ix.htm

Emancipation --Black and White.
... female type of character is neither better nor worse than the male, but only weaker;
that women ... have just indicated is the true position of woman, what is ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/ii emancipationblack and white.htm

Of the Fall of the First Man, in whom Nature was Created Good, and ...
... rule with a kind of pomp of empire rather than to be ... his instrument, and first tried
his deceit upon the woman, making his assault upon the weaker part of ...
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