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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:10 - 5:10
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for good works - Greek, “IN honorable (excellent) works”; the sphere or element in which the good report of her had place (Tit 2:7). This answers to 1Ti 3:7, as to the bishop or presbyter, “He must have a good report of them which are without.”
if - if, in addition to being “well reported of.”
she ... brought up children - either her own (1Ti 3:4, 1Ti 3:12), or those of others, which is one of the “good works”; a qualification adapting her for ministry to orphan children, and to mothers of families.
lodged strangers - 1Ti 3:2, “given to hospitality” (Tit 1:8); in the case of presbyters.
washed ... saints’ feet - after the example of the Lord (Joh 13:14); a specimen of the universal spirit of humbly “by love serving one another,” which actuated the early Christians.
relieved the afflicted - whether by pecuniary or other relief.
followed ... good - (1Th 5:15; compare instances in Mat 25:35, Mat 25:36).