“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,”
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is good — the female presbytides model reverent conduct (semnas en katastolē — dignified in demeanor), with particular warnings against slander (diabolos) and wine-slavery, vices that undermine household peace. The role as teachers of good (kalodidaskaloi) grants women explicit pedagogical authority, though directed toward younger women in familial contexts rather than public proclamation.
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Titus 2:3
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,”
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is good — the female presbytides model reverent conduct (semnas en katastolē — dignified in demeanor), with particular warnings against slander (diabolos) and wine-slavery, vices that undermine household peace. The role as teachers of good (kalodidaskaloi) grants women explicit pedagogical authority, though directed toward younger women in familial contexts rather than public proclamation.
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Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is good — the female presbytides model reverent conduct (semnas en katastolē — dignified in demeanor), with particular warnings against slander (diabolos) and wine-slavery, vices that undermine household peace. The role as teachers of good (kalodidaskaloi) grants women explicit pedagogical authority, though directed toward younger women in familial contexts rather than public proclamation.