For some have already strayed after Satan.
Do not harshly rebuke an elder man, but exhort him as you would your father. Correction is medicine and always bitter; respect for age makes him more willing to bear reproof. Yet this does not mean sparing old men to sin without correction, only that you moderate your tone so they may hear you.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:1-25
Honor widows truly widows indeed, those desolate and alone who trust in God and give themselves to prayer. But widows who live in pleasure, who gad about idle and talkative, meddling in affairs not theirs and spreading what they ought not speak: these the church must not maintain.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:3-16
For some are already turned aside after Satan. Meaning some of those younger widows, whom the apostle knew, and had observed to have departed from the faith they first professed, and turned their backs on Christ, and gave themselves up to carnal lusts and pleasures, and an idle and impure life and conversation, walked according to the course of this world, and the prince of...