Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Timothy 5:7 - 5:7

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Timothy 5:7 - 5:7


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7. καὶ ταῦτα παράγγελλε. καί carries us back to a former injunction at 1Ti 4:11; ταῦτα must refer to some counsel or warning about widows (and not about widows and their children), for plainly those who are to be ἀνεπίλημπτοι (on which word see 1Ti 3:2) are the χήραι alone. Hence the things in question (ταῦτα) would seem to be contained in 1Ti 5:5-6 which describe respectively the marks of ‘the widow indeed’ and of her who through her dissipated life has forfeited all claim to the title, which otherwise would naturally belong to her. It will be a duty for Timothy to reiterate these, ἴνα ἀνεπίλημπτοι ὦσιν.