translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: The word honor here carries the double meaning of respect and financial support. This Greek word can imply both senses, and both are intended in this context.


text: This list was an official enrollment, apparently with a formal pledge to continue as a widow and serve the Lord in that way (cf. v. 12 ). It was either (1) the list of “true widows” who were given support by the church or (2) a smaller group of older women among the supported widows who were qualified for special service (perhaps to orphans, other widows, the sick, etc.). Most commentators understand it to be the former, since a special group is not indicated clearly. See G. W. Knight, Pastoral Epistles , 222-23 for discussion.


text: A quotation from Deut 25:4 .


text: A quotation from Luke 10:7 .


text: An allusion to Deut 17:6, 19:15 .


text: As a continuation of v. 19 , this refers to elders who sin, not to sinning believers more generally.


text: This verse gives parenthetical advice to Timothy, to clarify what it means to keep pure ( 5:22 c). Verse 24 resumes the instructions about elders.