Verse 2
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
In all purity Lenski observed that "in all purity" is commonly understood to mean that Timothy is to watch his sexual nature when he is admonishing younger women";[2] but despite the fact of his denying that this is the correct understanding of the place, the meaning should nevertheless be allowed. Hervey had this conclusion, "See how jealously the apostle guards against any possibility of abuse of the familiar intercourse of a clergyman with the women of his flock."[3]
[2] R. C. H. Lenski, St. Paul's Epistles ... 1Timothy (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1937), p. 654.
[3] A. C. Hervey, op. cit., p. 95.
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