Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
CHAPTER 2 Titus 2:1-5 1. But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 1. Tu autem loquere quae decet sanam doctrinam 2. That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 2. senes ut sobrii sint pudici prudentes sani fide dilectione patientia 3.
Commenting on Titus 2:1-15
Here is the third thing in the matter of the epistle. In the chapter foregoing, the apostle had directed Titus about matters of government, and to set in order the things that were wanting in the churches. Now here he exhorts him, I. Generally, to a faithful discharge of his own office.
Commenting on Titus 2:1-10
And the aged women likewise,.... Speak also to them the things which become their profession, and what is right for them to be, and do: these aged women design not persons in office, who were ancient widows, and had some care of the poor; or presbyteresses, as some call them, the wives of presbyters or elders, as being distinct from deaconesses; but godly women in...