Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Ver. 1. Rebuke not an elder] Lash him not with the scourge of the tongue, as a puny boy, μη επιληξης. Ne plagam inflixeris. Jerk him not as the pope did Henry IV of France in the person of his ambassador, or as the bishops and their shavelings did Henry II of England till the blood followed. This is not civil usage for an elder.