“Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;”
Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father; treat younger men as brothers — the gerontological wisdom distinguishes correction strategies by age: to presbuteroi (older men) Timothy must extend paternal honor and encouragement; to younger men, fraternal approach. Authority tempered by relational propriety.
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