Titus 2:4. To avoid reproach, Titus' exhortations to younger females are to pass through the elder women.

Teach, better ‘school,' so to discipline as to bring one to practical wisdom. The virtues in which young married women need to be schooled follow: the virtues of home life. When first the Gospel gave dignity to womanhood and spiritual equality with man, some loosening might be feared of the natural subordination of the sex in marriage, causing the new faith to be evil spoken of (‘blasphemed').

Discreet is the word rendered ‘temperate' in Titus 2:2, and ‘sober-minded' in Titus 2:6. Better to retain the same rendering throughout, where the term is so characteristic See on ‘sober' in Titus 1:8.

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