There was no need to repost those two paragraphs, MessenjaH. They do make sense. I know something about women's conditions of that time, but if we go through the rest of Pauline letters, his attitude towards women seems to be quite different.
The strongest "evidence" for interpolation is that it really looks like that it was inserted between the verse 33a and 36. Consider the whole part without suspected interpolation:
If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret.
28: But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God.
29: Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
30: If a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first be silent.
31: For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged;
32: and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
33: For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
36: What! Did the word of God originate with you, or are you the only ones it has reached?
37: If any one thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.
38: If any one does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
39: So, my brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues;
40: but all things should be done decently and in order.
The suspected paragraph also directly contradict 1 Cor 11/5:
but any woman who prays or prophesies with her head unveiled dishonors her head -- it is the same as if her head were shaven.
Why would Paul bother to tell women that they shall have their heads covered when speaking prophecies, if he intended to tell them just few paragraph farther that they are not supposed to speak at all? That does not make sense.
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Buzsaw: If I close both eyes, I can regard #1 and #2 of you first post here as SLIGHTLY relevant. But the rest of it is nothing but MCP crap of the heaviest calliber.
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