Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
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Gill's Exposition
Likewise ye younger,.... Not in office, as if inferior officers to bishops were here intended, who ought to be subject to them; for elders and pastors are the same with them, nor is there any other…
Barnes' Notes
Likewise, ye younger - All younger persons of either sex. Submit yourselves unto the elder - That is, with the respect due to their age, and to the offices which they sustain. There is here, probably,…
Adam Clarke
Likewise, ye younger - Νεωτεροι probably means here inferiors, or those not in sacred offices; and may be understood as referring to the people at large who are called to obey them that have the rule…
Having settled and explained the duty of the pastors or spiritual guides of the church, the apostle comes now to instruct the flock,
I. How to behave themselves to their ministers and to one another.…
Cambridge Bible
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder The question meets us, whether the words refer to age only, or to office as connected with age. In either case we have, of course, a perfectly…
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