Saved Through Childbearing: Virtues As Children in 1 Timothy 2:11-15‪.‬

1 Timothy 2:11-15 is an allegory in which the virtues faith, love, holiness, and temperance are portrayed as the children of those women in Ephesus who will be saved. (1) A major part of our argument will expose a metaphorical use of the term "childbearing" and related concepts in the environment of 1 Timothy. However, preliminary discussion will center on our use of the term "allegory" as a description of 1 Tim 2:11-15. We will also show why the passage is ostensibly focused on a context-specific rather than a general relationship between women and men. Our goal is nothing less than to justify an entirely new reading of the phrase "saved through childbearing" in 1 Tim 2:15. I. Allegory as Category