Tertullian To His Wife Book I
Pursue earnestly, therefore, the virtue of continence, which is modesty's agent; industry, which allows not women to be "wanderers; "[92]
The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity
among houses"[96]
Verse 13. _AND WITHAL THEY LEARN_ TO BE _IDLE_] They do not love work, and they will not work. _WANDERING ABOUT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE_] Gadding, gossiping; never contented with home; always visiting....
AND WITHAL - In addition to the prospect that they may marry again, there are other disadvantages which might follow from such an arrangement, and other evils to be feared which it is desirable to avo...
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...
IDLE. Greek. (_argos_. See Matthew 12:36. Compare the verb _ketargeo_. Luke 13:7. Add "also". WANDERING ABOUT. Greek. pericrct omoi. See Acts 19:13. TATTLERS. Greek. phletaros. Only here. The verb...
_they learn_to be _idle_ Insert -also"; R.V. THEY LEARN ALSO TO BE IDLE. The position of -idle" and the stress in the next clause -not only idlers but" point to this construction, making -idle" predic...
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...
ἍΜΑ ΔῈ ΚΑΊ, introducing the second reason for the exclusion of young women from the order of ‘widows.’ ἈΡΓΑῚ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΟΥΣΙΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The translation is doubtful. We may construe (_a_) _being idle, they pic...
ΆΜΑ (G260) в то же время. Здесь используется в выражении ΆΜ ΔΈ ΚΑ (BAGD). ΆΡΓΌΣ (G692) не работающий, праздный. ΜΑΝΘΆΝΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΜΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G3129) учиться. Этот гл. с обозначением про...
AND WITHAL—TO BE IDLE, &C.— _And moreover, being idle, they get a habit of rambling from house to house; and are not only idle, but triflers,_ φλυαροι :—a word derived from the verb φλυειν, which sign...
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...
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. WITHAL - `at the same time, moreov...
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...
5:13 houses; (a-16) The word 'people's' is not in the original, but has been added to represent the article in the Greek. It means 'going from house to house.'...
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...
AND WITHAL THEY LEARN TO BE IDLE, WANDERING ABOUT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE. — The first fervour of their devotion and renunciation of self will have cooled, their very occupation will become a snare to the...
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...
ἅμα δὲ καί is Pauline. See reff. It is best to assume an omission of εἶναι, not necessarily through corruption of the text, as Blass supposes (_Gram_. p. 247). On the example cited by Winer-Moulton, _...
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...
(11) And withal they learn [to be] idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. (11) Another reason: because t...
_Idle, &c. He shews by what steps they fall. Neglecting their prayers, they give themselves to idleness; they go about visiting from house to house; they are carried away with curiosity to hear what p...
(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...
13_And not only so, but they grow idle _Nothing is more becoming in women than keeping the house; and hence, among the ancients, a tortoise (94) was the image of a good and respectable mother of a fam...
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...
AND WITHAL THEY LEARN TO BE IDLE,.... Being at ease, and without labour, living at the expense of the church: "wandering about from house to house"; having nothing else to do: such an one is what the...
And withal they learn _to be_ idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. Ver. 13. _They learn to be idle_] I...
_But the younger widows refuse_ Do not choose; _for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ_ To whose more immediate service they had devoted themselves; _they will marry_ And, perhaps, to h...
THEY; these younger widows who are supported by the church under a promise of devoting themselves to her service....
THE CARE OF WIDOWS ON THE PART OF THE CONGREGATION....
AND WITHAL THEY LEARN TO BE IDLE, WANDERING ABOUT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE; AND NOT ONLY IDLE, BUT TATTLERS ALSO AND BUSYBODIES, SPEAKING THINGS WHICH THEY OUGHT NOT....
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...
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1. Idle - Make a list of idle things....
“AT THE SAME TIME”: Another problem. 1 TIMOTHY 5:13 “THEY ALSO LEARN TO BE”: To be fully supported by the congregation without the need to work, would place the younger widow in. place of temptation....
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...
The apostle here gives some other reasons, why he would not have widows too young taken into the ministry of the church. AND WITHAL THEY LEARN TO BE IDLE, WANDERING ABOUT FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE; they bei...
1 Timothy 5:13 And G1161 G2532 besides G260 learn G3129 (G5719) idle G692 about G4022 (G5740) house...
1 Timothy 5:13. The very functions of the registered widows would tend in the case supposed to aggravate the evil. Their work of ministration, like that of a District Visitor or Sister of Mercy in mod...
AND WITHAL (αμα δε κα). See Philemon 1:22 for this very phrase, "and at the same time also." Such young enrolled widows have other perils also.THEY LEARN TO BE IDLE (αργα μανθανουσιν). There is no...
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...
THEY ALSO LEARN. They do not have the maturity required for this teaching mission of going from house to house. For those who have the strength (_gift,_ 1 Corinthians 7:7) to live unmarried in order t...
DISAGREEABLE BUSY B'S Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. 1 Timothy 5:13. Have you ever watched a bee gathering honey? Have you noticed how it flew to a flower, pushed its way into the...
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. 13. Other proofs are here given of their tendency in that direction, and such as would naturally grow by the comparative ease in which they might be enabled to live in consequence of the pecuniar...
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 Peter 4:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:11; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Acts 20:20;...
They learn [μ α ν θ α ν ο υ σ ι ν]. To be taken absolutely, as 1 Corinthians 14:31; 2 Timothy 3:7. They go about under the influence of an insatiable curiosity, and meet those who "creep into houses a...