1 Timothy 5:14 (WEB)
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
Fathers and councils · 13
Jerome
“His inference is thus expressed: “If they idly urge in defence of themselves the plea that the world in its early stage needed to be replenished, let them listen to the words of Paul, ‘I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children.’” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14.
Read the whole comment“We, while we do not encourage them, yet allow second marriages, since Paul bids the younger widows to marry.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14.
Read the whole comment“The same apostle wills that the younger widows should marry, bear children, and give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14.
Read the whole comment“But he immediately adds as a reason for this concession; “for some are already turned aside after Satan.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“For some are already turned aside after Satan.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14, 15.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For she had “been the wife of one man,” had requited her parents, had guided her house piously, was “well-reported of for good works,” had “brought up children,” as often travailing in birth of them as she saw them swerving from Thee.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 4, 9, 10, 14.
Read the whole comment“Though he saith that young widows may marry if they will: nevertheless he saith in a certain passage, “but more blessed she will be, if so she shall have remained, after my judgment.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14.
Read the whole comment“And on this account it is good to marry, because it is good to beget children, to be a mother of a family: but it is better not to marry, because it is better not to stand in need of this work, in order to human fellowship itself.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14
Read the whole comment“And, whereas in another place he saith, “But I will that the younger marry, bear children, be mothers of families,” he commends with apostolic sobriety and authority the good of marriage, but doth not impose the duty of bearing, as though in order to obey the law, even on those who “receive” the good of continence.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14, 15
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Gregory the Great
“…Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephes. iv. 3): and again, Give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully (1 Tim. v. 14).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“…would that all men were even as I myself” ( 1 Cor. vii. 7 ), in respect of continence, and again says, “I will that the younger women marry, bear children” ( 1 Tim. v. 14 ); and lays down two wills, yet the two are not his own, although he commands; but the one indeed is his own, and therefore he lays it down…” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
““But again, writing to Timotheus, he ‘wills the very young (women) to marry, bear children, act the housewife.’”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Jam enim quæ dam diverterunt post Satanam.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 14, 15.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 13.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 11.
Cited together in On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 11.
Cited together in Confessions IX.9.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 13.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.19.
Cited together in Confessions IX.9.