The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Ver. 2. With all purity] Not with some only, but "with all purity," for fear of the worst, εν παση αγνεια : and lest any impure motion therewhile creep into the heart unawares. The souls of ministers should be purer than the sunbeams, saith Chrysostom. They are by their office the lights of the world: let no snuff abide in them, they are fullones animarum, fullers of men's souls, to make and keep them white; let them take heed of a smutch. Turpe est doctori, &c. Nihil turpius est Peripatetico claudo. It is a shame for a teacher to be found faulty.