ACC ~ Titus 2 v3

OFFICEHOLDERS? THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: These are elders in age only, though some have taken the position that the women held an office analogous to that of male presbyters. COMMENTARY ON TITUS.

NOT SLAVES TO DRINK. ORIGEN: Therefore, he wants those for whom “the Lord is their portion” to be sober, to fast, to be vigilant at all times, but especially when they are present at the altar to pray to the Lord and to offer sacrifices in his presence. These commands preserve their force. They ought to be maintained in strict observance. The apostle confirms these as laws of the new covenant. In the same way, setting up the rules of life for the priests or the chief priests to this, he tells them that they ought not to be enslaved “to much wine” but to be “sober.”Sobriety is the mother of virtues, drunkenness the mother of vices. HOMILIES ON LEVITICUS 7.1.

HOLY DECORUM. JEROME: The women are, like the older men, to be honest, sober, chaste, strong in faith and charity and patience. They are also to bear themselves in a way proper for their sex, to maintain a holy manner in bodily movements, facial expressions, words, silence, and whatever tends to the dignity of a holy decorum. COMMENTARY ON TITUS.

PROPERLY DRESSED. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: The women are to be decently adorned, reverent and dignified. COMMENTARY ON TITUS.

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