| Geneva Study Bible {17} But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. (17) The church ought not to care for those who are stubbornly ignorant, and will not abide to be taught, but to go forward nonetheless in those things which are right. People's New Testament 14:38 If any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant. If he will be ignorant and obstinate, let him remain so. Wesley's Notes 14:38 Let him be ignorant - Be it at his own peril. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 38. if any man be ignorant-wilfully; not wishing to recognize these ordinances and my apostolic authority in enjoining them. let him be ignorant-I leave him to his ignorance: it will be at his own peril; I feel it a waste of words to speak anything further to convince him. An argument likely to have weight with the Corinthians, who admired "knowledge" so much. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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. | 
