1 Timothy 5:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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(b) 1 Timothy 5:1 to 1 Timothy 6:2 a. Timothy's Attitude to Particular Classes of Church Members.

1 Timothy 5:1 f. Old and Young. Older members must be treated with reverence, younger as equals in the Christian family.

1 Timothy 5:1. elder: rather, an older man. For a second-century parallel see Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 313.

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1 Timothy 5:1-2

1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.