1 Timothy 5:2

Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 60

  “Christ’s virgins and widows he honoured as mothers and exhorted as sisters “with all purity.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 2.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 123

  “If Paul can say to Timothy, “the younger widows refuse,” and again “love the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity,” what plea can you urge for refusing to hear my admonitions?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 2. Jerome substitutes ‘love’ for ‘rebuke.’

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Letters Letter 14

  “Wherefore also it is that the blessed Apostle Paul, in instructing Timothy upon the ruling of the Church, says: “an elder rebuke not, but intreat him as a father: the young men as brethren: old women as mothers: young women as sisters in all purity.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 1, 2.

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• Matthew 11:29

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Matthew 11:30

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Matthew 23:11

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Matthew 23:12

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Romans 12:5

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Romans 15:2

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• 1 Corinthians 7:29

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• 1 Corinthians 12:12

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Philippians 2:4

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.

• Philippians 2:21

  Cited together in Letters Letter 14.