1 Timothy 5:13 (WEB)
Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
Fathers and councils · 5
John Chrysostom
“Dost thou not hear Paul saying about widows, “they not only” (these are his words) “learn to be idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, wandering about from house to house, and speaking things which they ought not.” ( 1 Tim. v. 13.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“These wander from house to house and from one married lady to another, their god is their belly and their glory is in their shame, of the scriptures they know nothing except the texts which favour second marriages, but they love…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
““But at the same time,” saith he, “being idle they learn to go about to houses: but not only idle, but curious also and prating, speaking what they ought not.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 11, 12, 13. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“That, namely, befalleth them which in undisciplined younger widows, the same Apostle saith must be avoided: “And withal they learn to be idle; and not only idle, but also busy bodies and full of words, speaking what they ought not.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 13
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Tertullian
“Pursue earnestly, therefore, the virtue of continence, which is modesty’s agent; industry, which allows not women to be “wanderers;” frugality, which scorns the world.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 13.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 26.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 34.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.
Cited together in To His Wife I.8.