Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:13 - 5:13

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:13 - 5:13


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The apostle here gives some other reasons, why he would not have widows too young taken into the ministry of the church.



And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; they being young, and having no business at home, nor any husbands to conduct and govern them, are subject to be gadding up and down;



and not only idle, but tattlers also; and to be tattling idly and impertinently, and that not only of their own, but others’ concerns;



and busybodies, interesting themselves in the matters of other persons and families;



speaking things which they ought not, and in the multitude of words, folly being never wanting, they are prone to speak things which they ought not: from whence we may deserve, that nothing more becometh Christians than a gravity and composedness of behaviour and speech, a government of their tongues, and considering aforehand well what they speak.