Eclectic Amateur

The Daily Office Lectionary covers almost all of the Bible in a two-year reading cycle. The instructions do say that “Any Reading may be lengthened, at discretion. Suggested lengthenings are shown in parentheses.”

The following does not even rate a “suggested” (which is often read as “to-be-dropped-like-a-hot-potato”):

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparal, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion. Let a woman learn in silence with all sumissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silence. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived, and became a transgressor. Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

1 Timothy 2:9-15 (RSV, CE)

The Sunday Lectionary makes the same shortening of the reading when 1 Timothy is read in Year C.

I wonder why?