1 Timóteo 5

1 Timóteo 5

Clarke - Almost every critic of note allows that time here signifies reward, stipend, wages. Let him have a double or a larger salary who rules well. Donald Guthrie - The adjective descriptive of this honour, double, would appear to have the sense of ample or generous provision, but this would depend on their efficiency, as the adverb well indicates. Donald Guthrie - The instructions which Timothy is to give must refer to the responsibility of children to support their forbears (verse 4), and the responsibility of widows to fulfil the requirements mentioned in 1Ti 5:5. The verb used is strong, involving ‘command’. The command was necessary to ensure that no-one may be open to blame (anepilēmptos, ‘irreproachable’, cf. 1Ti 3:2). (Borrow The Pastoral Epistles : An Introduction and Commentary) John