Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
1 Timothy 5:5
Night and day.— That is, continually; morning and evening, and on every proper occasion, whether by night or by day.
Night and day.— That is, continually; morning and evening, and on every proper occasion, whether by night or by day.
Verse 1 Timothy 5:5. _AND DESOLATE_] και μεμονωμενη. _Left entirely_ _alone_-having neither children nor relatives to take care of her. _TRUSTETH IN GOD_] Finding she has no other helper, she _contin...
A WIDOW INDEED, AND DESOLATE - The word rendered “desolate” means “solitary, alone.” It does not necessarily imply the idea of discomfort which we attach to the word desolate. The sense is, that she h...
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)...
Honour widows who are genuinely in a widow's destitute position. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let such children learn to begin by discharging the duties of religion in their own hom...
DESOLATE. Greek. _monoomai_. Only here. TRUSTETH. has hoped. Implying continued hoping. in. App-104. OONTINUETH. Greek. _prosmeno_. See 1 Timothy 1:3. supplications. App-134. PRAYERS. App-134....
_trusteth in God_ The perfect of a continuing settled state, as in 1 Timothy 2:14 -is found in transgression;" so here -is found with a full hope placed upon God," HATH HER HOPE SET IN GOD. The same p...
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...
(_a_) CONCERNING THEIR MAINTENANCE...
Rec. text (and Tregelles) insert τὸν before θεὸν with אcAD2KL (cp. 1 Peter 3:5); _om_. א*CGP, followed by Tischendorf (cp. ch. 1 Timothy 4:10). Lachmann and Westcott and Hort place it in square bracke...
ΜΕΜΟΝΩΜΈΝΗ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΜΟΝΌΩ (G3443) оставлять в одиночестве; _pass._ оставаться в одиночестве. _Perf._ обозначает постоянное условие или состояние, ΉΛΠΙΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act._ orn ΕΛΠΊΖΩ (G...
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...
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. WIDOW INDEED, AND (LEFT) DESOLATE - contrasted with her who has children 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...
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...
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...
NOW SHE THAT IS A WIDOW INDEED, AND DESOLATE. — St. Paul, after mentioning this exception to the fit objects of the Church’s charity and protection, again returns to this special class of helpless one...
ἤλπικεν ἐπί : _hath her hope set on_. See on 1 Timothy 4:10, the analogy of which favours the omission of the article here. προσμένει : She is like Anna, νηστείαις καὶ δεήσεσιν λατρεύουσα νύκτα καὶ ἡμ...
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...
WISE TREATMENT OF YOUNG AND OLD 1 Timothy 5:1 That minister of Jesus is happiest who introduces the tone and manner of family life into the church, 1 Timothy 5:1. The attitude of son or brother to ot...
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...
VARIOUS TYPES OF WIDOWS True widows were not to be embarrassed because the church refused to provide for their physical needs and left them in poverty. They should be shown respect and given the tempo...
(7) Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. (7) The second rule. Let the church take care of those who are indeed wid...
She that is a widow indeed, and desolate, (destitute of help, as the Greek word implieth) may be maintained; and then let her be constant in prayers and devotions night and day. (Witham) --- Every Chr...
(1) В¶ Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; (2) The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. (3) В¶ Honour widows that are widows...
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...
5_She who is really a widow _He expresses his meaning more clearly than before; for he shews that they are really widows who are solitary and have no children. He says that such persons _hope in God _...
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...
NOW SHE THAT IS A WIDOW INDEED,.... A real widow, whom the Jews r call גמורה, "a perfect one", in opposition to one that is divorced, or a brother's widow, that has had the shoe plucked off for her: a...
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. Ver. 5. _Trusteth in God_] Whereas while she had a husband and children, she...
_Now she who is a widow indeed_ Deprived of all support from her relations and friends. The apostle seems to allude to the signification of the word χηρα, rendered _widow_, which comes from χηρος, _or...
DESOLATE; destitute, and having no relatives to support her. The words "widow indeed, and desolate" describe both her worldly condition and her character as a Christian. If she was not only destitute...
THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE AGED, THE YOUNG, THE WIDOWS....
NOW SHE THAT IS A WIDOW INDEED, AND DESOLATE, TRUSTETH IN GOD, AND CONTINUETH IN SUPPLICATIONS AND PRAYERS NIGHT AND DAY....
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...
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 1. Desolate - How would a widow be desolate? What is the difference in a wido...
“NOW SHE WHO IS. WIDOW INDEED AND WHO HAS BEEN LEFT ALONE”: This is. widow, in contrast to the widow who has family, who is completely alone. She is entirely alone, without husband, children, grandchi...
3-8 Honour widows that are widows indeed, relieve them, and maintain them. It is the duty of children, if their parents are in need, and they are able to relieve them, to do it to the utmost of their...
OLBGrk; NOW SHE THAT IS A WIDOW INDEED, AND DESOLATE: the apostle here opens the term of _widow indeed,_ 1 TIMOTHY 5:3; one that is memonwmenh one that is made alone, destitute of such as ought to hel...
1 Timothy 5:5 Now G1161 really G3689 widow G5503 and G2532 alone G3443 (G5772) trusts G1679 (G5758) in...
1 Timothy 5:5. DESOLATE, _i.e._ left alone, in contrast with the widow who has children or grandchildren. TRUSTETH. Better, ‘ _has set her hope on God.'_ IN SUPPLICATIONS AND PRAYERS NIGHT AND DAY....
DESOLATE (μεμονωμενη). Perfect passive participle of μονοω (from μονος), "left alone," old verb, here alone in N.T. Without husband, children, or other close kin.HATH HER HOPE SET ON GOD (ηλπικεν...
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...
WHO IS A TRUE WIDOW. She has no children or close relatives at all. See Anna (Luke 2:36-37 and notes)....
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. 5. Turning, then, from such widows and their families to those whom he wished more particularly to press on the notice of Timothy and the officers of the church, the apostle says: _But she who is...
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 7:32; 1 Peter 3:5; 1 Timothy 5:3; Acts 26:7; Ephesians
And desolate [κ α ι μ ε μ ο ν ω μ ε ν η]. N. T. o. From monov alone. Explanatory of a widow indeed. One entirely bereaved. Trusteth in God [η λ π ι κ ε ν ε π ι τ ο ν θ ε ο ν]. Strictly hath directed...
Widows indeed — Who have no near relations to provide for them; and who are wholly devoted to God. Desolate — Having neither children, nor grandchildren to relieve her....