“Ver. 4. "That they may teach the young women to be sober." Observe how he binds the people together, how he subjects the younger women to the elder. For he is not speaking there of daughters, but merely in respect of age. Let each of the elder women, he means, teach any one that is younger to be sober. "To love their…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Titus 4
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5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
— Titus 2:5 —
6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,