SEV Biblia, Chapter 5:2
a las ancianas, como a madres; a las jovencitas, como a hermanas, con toda limpieza.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Timothy 5:2
Verse 2. The elder women as mothers] Treating them with the respect due to their age. The younger as sisters] Feel for every member of the Church, old and young, male and female; consider them as fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters; treat them all with gentleness; and labour to keep them in, not to expel them from, the Church.
With all purity.] en pash agneia? With all chastity. See the note on chap. iv. 12.
There are some who seem to take a barbarous pleasure in expelling members from, the Church. They should be continued in as long as possible; while they are in the Church - under its ordinances and discipline, there is some hope that their errors may be corrected; but when once driven out again into the world, that hope must necessarily become extinct. As judgment is God's strange work, so excommunication should be the strange, the last, and the most reluctantly performed work of every Christian minister.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. The elder women as mothers , etc.] When they offend in any point, they are to be reasoned, and argued, and pleaded with, as children should with their mothers; (see Hosea 2:2) and are to be considered as mothers in Israel, and to be treated with great tenderness and respect. The younger as sisters ; using the freedom as a brother may with a sister; and considering them as sisters in Christ, and in a way becoming the relation, tell them their faults freely and privately, but with all purity : in such manner as to preserve chastity in looks, in words, and actions.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1, 2 - Respect must be paid to the dignity of years and place. The younger, i faulty, must be rebuked, not as desirous to find fault with them, but as willing to make the best of them. There is need of much meekness an care in reproving those who deserve reproof.
Greek Textus Receptus
πρεσβυτερας 4245 ως 5613 μητερας 3384 νεωτερας 3501 ως 5613 αδελφας 79 εν 1722 παση 3956 αγνεια 47
Vincent's NT Word Studies
2. The elder women (presbuterav). N.T.o . Comp. presbutidav aged women, Tit. ii. 3. The word indicates distinction in age merelly, although some think that it points to an official position which is further referred to in the following directions concerning widows. 118
Robertson's NT Word Studies
5:2 {The elder women as mothers} (presbuteras hws meteras). Anarthrous again, "older women as mothers." Respect and reverence once more. {The younger as sisters, in all purity} (newteras hws adelfas en pasei hagniai). Anarthrous also and comparative form as in verse #1. See #4:12 for hagnia. No sort of behavior will so easily make or mar the young preacher as his conduct with young women.
