What is the status of women among pagan peoples and in the Middle East compared to the Western world?
Among most pagan peoples, women are still second-class citizens. In the Middle East, women do not have the same rights and privileges that people in the Western world normally think of. This reveals a contrast between those societies and Western standards.
Les explains that among most pagan peoples, the woman is still a second-class citizen. Even in the Middle East, the woman does not have the same rights and privileges that we in the Western world normally think of. In the immediate passage, however, even the women are involved in the work, putting their spinning wheels and needles to work. The broader context stresses that God is concerned with every facet of life—physical and material as well as spiritual—and He fills craftsmen with wisdom of heart for all manner of workmanship.