For some have already strayed after Satan.
CHAPTER 5 1 Timothy 5:1-4 1. Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 1. Seniorem ne aspere objurges sed hortare ut patrem, juniores ut fratres; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 2. Mulieres natu grandiores, ut matres; juniores, ut sorores, cum omni castitate. 3. Honour widows that are widows indeed. 3.
Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:1-25
Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office.
Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:3-16
For some are already turned aside after Satan. Meaning some of those younger widows, whom the apostle knew, and had observed to have departed from the faith they first professed, and turned their backs on Christ, and gave themselves up to carnal lusts and pleasures, and an idle and impure life and conversation, walked according to the course of this world, and the prince of...