Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Timothy 5:14
I will, therefore, that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
I will, therefore, that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Verse 14. _I WILL THEREFORE THAT THE YOUNGER WOMEN MARRY_] As the preceding discourse has been about the younger widows, and this is an inference from it; it is most evident that by the _younger wome...
I WILL THEREFORE - I give it as my opinion; or this is my counsel; compare notes, 1 Corinthians 7:6, 1Co 7:10, 1 Corinthians 7:40. THAT THE YOUNGER WOMEN MARRY - The word “women” is not exp
V. INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Concerning widows (1 Timothy 5:1)_ 2. Concerning elders (1 Timothy 5:17) 3. Responsibility and personal instructions (1 Timothy 5:22)...
WIDOWS. The space devoted to widows indicates the existence of a special difficulty in Asia. Paul gives Timothy definite instructions. (_a)_ Deserving widows really left alone should be maintained fro...
THE DUTY TO REPRIMAND (1 Timothy 5:1-2)...
Refuse to enrol the younger women as widows, for when they grow impatient with the restrictions of Christian widowhood, they wish to marry, and so deserve condemnation, because they have broken the pl...
WILL. App-102.3. BEAR CHILDREN. Greek. _tekatogoneo_. Only here. Compare 1 Timothy 2:15. GUIDE THE HOUSE. Greek. _oikodespoteo_. Only here. NONE. Greek. _medeis_. OCCASION. Greek. _aphorme_, See R...
_I will therefore_ Rather, with R.V. -I desire;" the stronger verb, as in 1 Timothy 2:8; 1 Timothy 6:9; Titus 3:8: and four other passages of St Paul's Epistles: while the weaker verb is used by him m...
Timothy's duties in regard to widows Counsel on alms and charities for widows. The natural and obvious view of this passage studied in itself is to present _the Church charities_of this period as hav...
ΒΟΎΛΟΜΑΙ ΟΥ̓͂Ν, _I desire therefore_: more definite than θέλω, as expressive of a special exertion of will. see on 1 Timothy 2:8. The οὖν refers to both the reasons assigned (1 Timothy 5:11-13) for th...
ΒΟΎΛΟΜΑΙ (G1014) _praes. ind. med. (dep.)_ хотеть, желать, с _inf._ Формально по иудейскому закону и обычаю вдова имела не поддающееся сомнению право повторно выйти замуж, это было не только разрешено...
THE CARE OF WIDOWS 1 Timothy 5:3-16 _TEXT 5:3-16_ 3 Honor widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family...
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. YOUNGER (women) - rather 'the younger widows,' as distingu...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
1 The signs of the last days are all present with us now. The teaching of deceiving spirits and demons has become one of the great and popular cults of the day. Their deception seems chiefly to take t...
5:14 respect (b-20) Or 'by reason of.' The sense is, the favour borne to anything; sometimes it is an object, sometimes a pleasing motive. The adversary found in the reproach a motive to exercise his...
REGARDING WIDOWS AND ACCUSATIONS AGAINST ELDERS 1. Rebuke] This shows the authority which Timothy exercised. AN ELDER] i.e. an elderly man, not one officially so named....
THE SEVENTH CHARGE TO TIMOTHY—as to widows....
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 ABOUT PERSONAL ATTITUDES AND RELATIONS (5:1-2) V1 Do not correct an older man with hard words. But appeal to him as if he wer...
I WILL THEREFORE THAT THE YOUNGER WOMEN MARRY, BEAR CHILDREN, GUIDE THE HOUSE. — Here the Apostle deliberately expresses his _will_ that in these Christian communities the younger widows should not, i...
βούλομαι οὖν : See note on 1 Timothy 2:8. νεωτέρας : The insertion of χήρας before νεωτέρας in about 30 cursives, Chrys. Theodoret, John Damasc., Jerome, is a correct gloss (so R.V.). The whole conte...
The wise Church ruler must understand how to deal with his people individually. Each age and condition needs separate treatment: old men, young men; old women, young women. Widows in particular need d...
HOME-KEEPING INDUSTRY ENJOINED 1 Timothy 5:9 The sphere of the younger woman must be in the home. This is the noblest work of all, and wherever it exists, it has the prior claim; yet even during the...
Timothy's demeanor toward men and women was now described, and demands careful study and attention. As for men, seniors are to be treated with respect, while the younger men are to be treated as breth...
PROVIDING FOR CHRISTIAN WIDOWS Children and grandchildren who did not care for their widowed mothers or other close relatives who might even have lived in their own houses denied the faith. In fact, t...
(12) I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. (12) The fifth rule: let younger widows marry and gover...
The younger [5] (widows) should marry. They who understand this of a command or exhortation to all widows to marry, make St. Paul contradict himself, and the advice he gave to widows 1 Corinthians vi...
(9) Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, (10) Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged stra...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
14_I wish the younger _(widows) _to marry_. Censorious men laugh at this injunction of the Apostle. “As if,” say they, “it had been necessary to stimulate their excessively strong desire; for who does...
Having thus considered the labourer, the apostle returns to the details of the work, in which Timothy was to display his diligence and watchful care. Everywhere here the subject is that which is suita...
I WILL THEREFORE THAT THE YOUNGER WOMEN MARRY,.... Or "the younger" widows rather; and so some copies read; for this is not the apostle's advice to young women in general, though it will suit with the...
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. Ver. 14. _Give none occasion to the adversary_] The devil or...
_I will therefore that the younger women_ Or _widows_ rather, (concerning whom only the apostle is here speaking,) _marry_ Instead of thinking to intrude themselves into a situation for which they are...
I WILL-THAT THE YOUNGER WOMEN MARRY; the younger widows of whom he has been speaking. This would be better for them and better for society. THE ADVERSARY; the enemy of religion. The admission of youn...
In this section we are faced with more detailed, practical responsibilities in reference to the various relationships in which one may be found. This is wholesome, sobering instruction. First, a young...
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. 1. Bear children - Is bearing children a command from God? C...
TO SPEAK REPROACHFULLY: _ Gr._ for their railing...
“THEREFORE”: In view of these pitfalls. 1 TIMOTHY 5:14 “I WANT YOUNGER WIDOWS TO GET MARRIED”: The very fact that they married the first time indicates that they will have sexual desires. These are n...
9-16 Every one brought into any office in the church, should be free from just censure; and many are proper objects of charity, yet ought not to be employed in public services. Those who would find m...
I WILL THEREFORE THAT THE YOUNGER WOMEN MARRY: _I will, _ here, must not be interpreted into an absolute precept, (for the apostle would never have made that necessary by his precept which God had lef...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Unde etiam Apostolus: "Volo, inquit, juniores nubere, filios procreare, domui prae esse, nullam dare occasionem adversario maledicti gratia. Jam enim quae dam...
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1 Timothy 5:14. YOUNGER WOMEN. Better, _‘younger widows;'_ for it is of these as a class, and not of women in general, that St. Paul is speaking, though, as above suggested, the word may not necessari...
I DESIRE (βουλομα). See 1 Timothy 2:8.THE YOUNGER WIDOWS (νεωτερας). No article and no word for widows, though that is clearly the idea. Νεωτερας is accusative of general reference with γαμειν (t...
CONTENTS: Work of a good minister of Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Timothy, Satan. CONCLUSION: Ministers of Jesus Christ are reprovers by office, for they are not alone to preach the Word, b...
1 Timothy 5:1. _Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father._ Job's three princely friends not only mistook his case, but were severe in their reprehensions; and were themselves reprehended of th...
THAT THE YOUNGER WIDOWS GET MARRIED. None are to be placed on this list but the aged. There are to be no young nuns. It will be better if the widows under sixty years old get married again. NO CHANCE...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 5:14 NO OCCASION FOR SLANDER. Compare 1 Timothy 3:7; 1 Timo
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 5:3 Providing for widows was an important role for the church from its earliest days (see Acts 6:1). This passage identifies which widows the church should support....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 5:4. CHILDREN OR NEPHEWS.—R.V. “children or grandchildren.” “Descendants, or more specially, as the context implies, grandchildren—nephews in the original b...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 5:1 _Exhort _for _intreat_,_ _A.V.; _and _omitted. REBUKE NOT (μὴ ἐπιπλήξης); only here in the New Testament for the more usual ἐπιτιμάω (2 Timothy 4:2, and frequently in th...
Ver. 14. _I wish, therefore, that the younger_ [widows] this is certainly what must be supplied, widows alone being the subject of discourse, not generally women _marry, bear children, manage the hous...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to First Timothy chapter five? Paul is a spiritual father to Timothy, Timothy's mentor. He looks upon him as a son; in fact, he calls him his son in the faith. Timothy...
1 Corinthians 7:8; 1 Corinthians 7:9; 1 Peter 4:14; 1 Peter 4:15;...
That the younger women marry [ν ε ω τ ε ρ α ς γ α μ ε ι ν]. Better, the younger widows. This seems to be required by oun therefore, connecting the subject of the verb with the class just described. Th...
I counsel therefore the younger women — Widows or virgins, such as are not disposed to live single. To marry, to bear children, to guide the family — Then will they have sufficient employment of their...