ACC ~ 1 Timothy 5 v4

REPAY YOUR PARENTS? CHRYSOSTOM: Observe the discretion of Paul, how often he urges us to attend to human considerations. For he does not here lay down any great and lofty motive but one that is easy to be understood: “to requite their parents.” Why? For bringing them up and educating them. It is as if he should say, you have received from them great care. They are departed. You cannot compensate them. For you did not bring them forth or nourish them. Compensate them in their descendants. Repay the debt through the children. HOMILIES ON 1 TIMOTHY 13.

THE CHILDREN’S RELIGIOUS DUTY. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: It is the children and grandchildren who should learn their religious duties, namely, to care for widowed forebears, and not the widows who are to learn, for it is precisely they who are worthy of assistance, partly because they have no children. COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY.

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