Let not a widow be chosen — Into the number of deaconesses, who attended sick women or travelling preachers. Under threescore — Afterwards they were admitted at forty, if they were eminent for holiness. Having been the wife of one husband — That is, having lived in lawful marriage, whether with one or more persons successively.
Verse 9. _TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER_] Let her not be taken into the list of those for which the Church must provide. But some think that the apostle means the list of those who were _deaconesses_ in the C...
LET NOT A WIDOW BE TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER - Margin, “chosen.” The margin expresses the sense of the Greek more accurately, but the meaning is not materially different. Paul does not here specify into w...
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...
Let a woman be enrolled as a widow only if she is more than sixty years of age; if she has been the wife of one husband; if she has earned an attested reputation for good works; if she has nourished c...
THE DUTY TO REPRIMAND (1 Timothy 5:1-2)...
TAKEN, &c.. enrolled. Greek. _katalegomai_. Only here. under less than. Greek. _elasson_, See Romans 9:11. MAN. App-123....
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...
More definite direction is now given as to the honour and the qualification, _Let not a widow be taken into the number_. The position of the word -widow" at the beginning of the sentence makes it prob...
We read in the Gospels of the ministry of women (Luke 8:3; Matthew 27:55), and also in the Acts (Acts 9:36). In Romans 16:1 Phoebe, a διάκονος of the Church at Corinth, is
9, 10. (_b_) WIDOWS AS AN ORGANISED BODY IN THE CHURCH...
ΚΑΤΑΛΕΓΈΣΘΩ _praes. imper. pass. от_ ΚΑΤΑΛΈΓΩ (G2639) заносить в список, записывать. Это термин, означающий занесение в некую перепись (Kelly), ΈΛΑΤΤΟΝ mi781) _сотр. от_ ΜΊΚΡΟΣ маленький; _сотр._ мен...
BE TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER,— _Be put upon the list,_ is the precise signification of the word καταλεγεσθω. Surely none can imagine that the apostle meant to confine the charity of the church to widows o...
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...
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, 'As a widow (i:e., of the ecclesiastical order of widowhood: a female presbytery), let none be...
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...
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...
THE SEVENTH CHARGE TO TIMOTHY—as to widows....
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....
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...
LET NOT A WIDOW BE TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER UNDER THREESCORE YEARS OLD. — The question respecting the assistance to be afforded to the poor and destitute widows of the great Asian Church reminded St. Pau...
καταλεγέσθω : St. Paul passes naturally from remarks about the duty of Church members to their widowed relatives to specific rules about the admission of widows to the roll of Church widows (see Acts...
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...
(9) Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of (b) one man, (9) The fourth rule: let none under sixty years old be taken into the number of widows, t...
_Not under threescore years of age. Some think he speaks only of such a widow as was placed over all the rest: but the common exposition is of all such widows as were maintained in that manner, who ma...
(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...
9_Let a widow be chosen. _He again points out what kind of widows should be taken under the care of the Church; (91) and more clearly than he had formerly done. _Not under sixty years of age _First, h...
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...
LET NOT A WIDOW BE TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER,.... That is, of widows, to be maintained by the church; though some choose to understand these words of the number of such who were made deaconesses, and had...
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, Ver. 9. _The wife of one man_] As Anna, Luke 2:36. Such are held to be more modest, to whom the t...
_Let not a widow be taken into the number_ Καταλεγεσθω, _taken upon the list_ of those who are to be maintained by the church, and to attend upon the sick poor, and teach the young; _under threescore...
THE CARE OF WIDOWS ON THE PART OF THE CONGREGATION....
LET NOT A WIDOW BE TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER UNDER THREESCORE YEARS OLD, HAVING BEEN THE WIFE OF ONE MAN,...
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...
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, 1. Number - Does this verse teach that a widow younger than 60 can not be a member of the local c...
TAKEN: Or, chosen...
THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR WIDOWS TO BE ENROLLED 1 Timothy 5:9 “A widow is to be put on the list only if”: The expression “put on the list” means “to set down on. list, to register, to enroll” _(Thayer p...
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...
OLBGrk; LET NOT A WIDOW BE TAKEN, INTO THE NUMBER UNDER THREESCORE YEARS OLD; what number he meaneth is very doubtful, whether he means the number of deaconesses, or the number of such as should recei...
Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians For we bestow our attention; not on the study of words, but on the exhibition and teaching of actions,-that a person should either remain as he was born, or be c...
1 Timothy 5:9 not G3361 let G2639 widow G5503 under G1640 sixty G1835 old G2094 number G2639 (G5744) been...
1 Timothy 5:9. The negative conditions are followed by the positive. LET NOT A WOMAN BE TAKEN INTO THE NUMBER. Better, ‘ _entered on the register_ or _list.'_ The word implies a systematic, organized...
LET NONE BE ENROLLED AS A WIDOW (χηρα καταλεγεσθω). Present passive imperative of καταλεγω, old verb, to set down in an official list, only here in N.T. "Let a widow be enrolled," the negative comin...
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...
DO NOT ADD. A _listed_ widow meets certain qualifications; is supported directly by the church; and is in a sense the female counterpart of the church leader. She is primarily a teacher, in contrast t...
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....
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 5:9 HAVING BEEN THE WIFE OF ONE HUSBAND is the feminine form of a phrase found in the requirements for overseers and deacons (see note on 3:2–3)....
_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...
Vers. 9, 10. Very few parts of this epistle have given rise to greater diversity of opinion than the instruction contained in these verses; and from the scantiness of our information respecting the do...
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 7:10; 1 Corinthians 7:11; 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 7:40;...
Be taken into the number [κ α τ α λ ε γ ε σ θ ω]. Better, enrolled (as a widow). N. T. o. Very, rare in LXX Common in Class. Originally, to pick out, as soldiers. Hence, to enroll, enlist. Here, to be...
Our apostle had given directions concerning such widows as were to be maintained by the church's charity in the preceding verses; he speaks now of such widows as were to be admitted into the church's...