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1Ti_5:7. After describing briefly the conduct of the two classes of widows, the apostle continues: καὶ ταῦτα παράγγελλε ] ταῦτα refers to what was said regarding widows. Timothy is, by way of exhortation, to announce to the church, therefore to the widows, what the apostle has written to him; παράγγελλε , comp. 1Ti_4:11.
ἵνα ἀνεπίληπτοι ὦσιν ] ἵνα here gives the purpose (at 2Th_3:12 it stands after παραγγέλλειν κ . παρακαλεῖν in a different sense). The subject of the clause is not the dependants ( τέκνα καὶ ἔκγονα , 1Ti_5:4) of the widows, much less they along with the widows (Heydenreich), or men and women (Grotius), but the widows spoken of in the preceding verses.