The bishops think they are Gentile judges of Israel under a New Covenant??   As for this question I think this is where our Bishops in the later 3rd century & after started connecting things that aren't supposed to be connected.  A little of the Free Mason issue today where they are following ancient rituals assuming purposes that are not really correct because they lost touch with the ritual's base or they were never really raised in the culture of which the ritual came & so are ignorant of its purpose.  These later leaders of the church are no longer from Judaism but are converts from pagan faiths so they often made decisions regarding Jewish Rituals that don't belong in Christianity because they misunderstood why they were in Judaism.  So we get these nasty reasons for excluding women or just very sexist beliefs being taught overall by Augustine, and others - they quote Aristotle, etc. not Jesus when they make these nasty remarks & try to mix this with the Gospels and Church Law.