“"Rebuke not an elder." Is he now speaking of the order? I think not, but of any elderly man. What then if he should need correction? Do not rebuke him, but address him as you would a father offending.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on 1 Timothy 13
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1Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
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— 1 Timothy 5:1 —
2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.