Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Timothy 5:3
(2) (a) Honour widows that are widows indeed.
(2) The apostle gives these rules concerning the care of widows.
(a) Have care of those widows who have need of help.
(2) (a) Honour widows that are widows indeed.
(2) The apostle gives these rules concerning the care of widows.
(a) Have care of those widows who have need of help.
Verse 1 Timothy 5:3. _HONOUR WIDOWS THAT ARE WIDOWS INDEED._] One meaning of the word τιμαω, to _honour_, is to _support, sustain, c._, Matthew 15:4; and here it is most obviously to be taken in this...
HONOUR WIDOWS - The particular attention and respect which are enjoined here, seem to refer to the class of widows who were supported by the church, and who were entrusted with the performance of cert...
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...
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...
THE DUTY TO REPRIMAND (1 Timothy 5:1-2)...
INDEED. See John 8:36....
_Honour widows_ The honour implied is further referred to in 1 Timothy 5:9; as the honour of 1 Timothy 5:17 is defined by 1 Timothy 5:18. So in Acts 2
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...
ΧΉΡΑΣ ΤΊΜΑ Κ.Τ.Λ. _Honour as widows those that are widows indeed_. Ἡ ὌΝΤΩΣ ΧΉΡΑ is a _bona fide_ widow, i.e. one who is alone in the world without husband or grown-up children to support her. This is...
(_a_) CONCERNING THEIR MAINTENANCE...
ΧΉΡΑ (G5503) вдова. Забота о вдовах и сиротах и их защита в течение долгого времени считалась у иудеев моральной обязанностью, и подобное отношение было принято церковью с самого начала ее существован...
HONOUR WIDOWS— To _honour_ here, signifies not only to _respect_ but _maintain,_ as is evident from the context from 1 Timothy 5:17 and other passages of Scripture: "Respect and maintain the _widows,_...
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...
Honour widows that are widows indeed. HONOUR - by setting on the church roll as fit objects of charity (; 1 Timothy 5:17; ). So "honour" is used for support,...
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....
WIDOWS INDEED] Each local Church kept a list of the widows belonging to the congregation, who were supported by the alms of the faithful if they were widows indeed, that is, if they had none to help t...
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...
HONOUR WIDOWS THAT ARE WIDOWS INDEED. — The mention of the relations of a pastor to the female members of the flock suggests another train of thought. Christianity had, during the thirty years of its...
CHAPTER 14 THE PASTOR'S BEHAVIOR TOWARDS WOMEN-THE CHURCH WIDOW. - 1 Timothy 5:3; 1 Timothy 5:9 THE subject of this fifth chapter is "The Behavior of the Pastor towards the older and younger men and...
τίμα : It is difficult to fix precisely the force of τιμάω in this connexion. On the one hand, the passage (1 Timothy 5:3-8) is a part of the general directions as to Timothy's personal relations to h...
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...
_Honour widows. To honour, here means to relieve and maintain. (Witham)_...
(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...
3_Honor widows that are really widows. By _the word _honor _he does not mean any expression of respect, but that special care of them which bishops (85) took in the ancient Church; for widows were tak...
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...
HONOUR WIDOWS THAT ARE WIDOWS INDEED. Who those are, see in 1 Timothy 1:5. The honour to be given them is not a putting of them into the office of a deaconess, in the church; which office, some think,...
Honour widows that are widows indeed. Ver. 3. _Honour widows indeed_] That is, such as are widows not by divorce, but by the death of their husbands, and loss of their children; such as was Naomi. Ho...
_Honour_ And endeavour honourably to support from the public stock; _widows_ Whose destitute circumstances recommend them as the certain objects of charity. According to the Greek commentators, the wi...
HONOR WIDOWS; the honor here referred to, as the context shows, was that of a reception to the list of those who were to have public maintenance from the congregation, and were employed in useful Chri...
HONOR WIDOWS THAT ARE WIDOWS INDEED....
THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE AGED, THE YOUNG, THE WIDOWS....
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...
Honor widows that are widows indeed. 1. Widows - Who is a widow? Is a woman who is deserted by her husband a widow? Is a divorced woman a widow? 2. Indeed - Is there a difference between a widow and...
THE CARE OF WIDOWS 1 Timothy 5:3 “Honor”: To revere, venerate, and in this context, “honor” includes not only respect, but also financial support (Matthew 15:4). God had equally stressed care for wido...
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...
HONOUR WIDOWS; give a respect to such as have lost their husbands, with a regard to that honourable estate of marriage in which they have been formerly, and do not only pay them a due respect, but aff...
Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch "Honour widows that are widows indeed."[14] Tertullian Of Patience Further, if we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience,...
1 Timothy 5:3 Honor G5091 (G5720) widows G5503 really G3689 widows G5503 Honor - 1 Timothy 5:2,...
1 Timothy 5:3. The verses that follow depend for their right interpretation on a true estimate of the position of the ‘widows' in a Christian community in the Apostolic Church, and this seems accordin...
THAT ARE WIDOWS INDEED (τας οντως χηρας). For οντως (actually, really), see Luke 23:47; 1 Corinthians 14:25; and verse 1 Timothy 5:5. For widows (χηρα) see...
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...
SHOW RESPECT FOR WIDOWS. We can identify four types of widows in what Paul writes here. (1) The true widow (1 Timothy 5:5); (2) The widow with children or grandchildren (1 Timothy 5:4); (3) The widow...
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. 3. _Honour widows that are widows indeed._ It is questioned whether the honouring here enjoined is to be understood in the general sense of showing deference and respect to one, or in the more sp...
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 2:17; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:6; 1 Timothy 5:16;...
Honor [τ ι μ α]. Not only by respectful treatment but by financial support. Comp. timhsei, Matthew 14:5, and pollaiv timaiv ejtimhsan, Acts 28:10; and diplhv timhv 1 Timothy 5:17. Comp. Sir. 38 1. 'Th...
Honour — That is, maintain out of the public stock....
Our apostle proceeds to give Timothy directions concerning widows, particularly those who were to be maintained by the church's charity, and to live upon it. Note, 1. The persons who were to be reliev...