Verse 17
b. To elders, their stipend, trial, ordination, and purity, 1 Timothy 5:17-25 .
17. Double honour A double appreciation, or apprisal, showing itself not only in respect, but in means of support. He who expended most time and labour, would need and deserve most remuneration. That compensation is here included is agreed by critics and confirmed by Paul’s reasons assigned in the next verse.
Labour in the word and doctrine This may mean that there were two kinds of elders, namely, ruling elders and preaching elders; or it may simply mean that some were more efficient than others. The former supposes a distinction of office, the latter a difference in the men. The former is not the necessary meaning; and this passage is hardly sufficient to show a twofold office.
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