1 Timothy 5:2

The elder women as mothers,.... When they offend in any point, they are to be reasoned, and argued, and pleaded with, as children should with their mothers; see Hos 2:2 and are to be considered as…

The elder women as mothers - Showing still the same respect for age, and for the proprieties of life. No son who had proper feelings would rebuke his own mother with severity. Let the minister of…

The elder women as mothers - Treating them with the respect due to their age.

The younger as sisters - Feel for every member of the Church, old and young, male and female; consider them as fathers,…

Here the apostle gives rules to Timothy, and in him to other ministers, in reproving. Ministers are reprovers by office; it is a part, though the least pleasing part, of their office; they are to…

with all purity Accurately in; the R.V. shews the connexion of the phrase with -the younger" by a colon instead of comma after -mothers." Jerome's rule is well quoted here -omnes puellas et virgines…