16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.



Ver. 16. Thou shalt both save] What a high honour is this to faithful ministers, that they should be styled saviours in a sense! So Job_33:24; Oba_1:21 Jam_5:20. Only it must be their care to save themselves as well as their hearers; and that it be not said of them, as once it was of Laertes, the father of Ulysses, that he ordered all things well, but neglected himself. One desired a bad-living preacher to point him out a nearer way to heaven than that he had taught in his sermons; for he went not that way himself.