36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
36 Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached?
36 Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached?
36 Do you - both women and men - imagine that you're a sacred oracle determining what's right and wrong? Do you think everything revolves around you?
36 Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached?
36 Or do you think God's word originated with you Corinthians? Are you the only ones to whom it was given?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 14:36
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 14:34-40
(Read 1 Corinthians 14:34-40)
When the apostle exhorts Christian women to seek information on religious subjects from their husbands at home, it shows that believing families ought to assemble for promoting spiritual knowledge. The Spirit of Christ can never contradict itself; and if their revelations are against those of the apostle, they do not come from the same Spirit. The way to keep peace, truth, and order in the church, is to seek that which is good for it, to bear with that which is not hurtful to its welfare, and to keep up good behaviour, order, and decency.