From 2231d0286c45cd92bec69e014a4765a0d736eaf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joycerendahl Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:32:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add '55-1ti/05.md' --- 55-1ti/05.md | 235 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 235 insertions(+) create mode 100644 55-1ti/05.md diff --git a/55-1ti/05.md b/55-1ti/05.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acd4188 --- /dev/null +++ b/55-1ti/05.md @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +# 1 TIMOTHY 5 +## 5:1-2 + +### How was Timothy to treat older people? + +Paul told Timothy to respect older men and women in the same way he would respect a father or mother. +Paul wrote Timothy not to “scold” an older man. That is, Timothy was not to speak harshly or disrespect an +older man. + +See: Leviticus 19:32 + +### How was Timothy to treat younger people? + +Paul told Timothy to treat younger people in the same way he treated his own brothers and sister. +Particularly, Paul told Timothy to encourage younger women with all “purity.” That is, Timothy was to +honor and to protect younger women. Also, Timothy was treat younger women with moral purity. That is, +he was not to commit sexual immorality, by thinking or doing the wrong things. + +**Advice to Translator: in English, a person cannot do sexual immorality, they “commit” sexual +immorality.**: + +See: Sexual immorality + +## 5:3-16 + +### What was a “real widow”? + +Any woman whose husband died was a “widow.” However, Paul was writing about a widow who did not +have anyone to care for her and not a widow whose family was able to help her (see: 5:16). The church was +to help only widows who had no one and nothing to help them. + +See: Deuteronomy 10:18, 14:29, 24:17-22; Isaiah 1:17; James 1:27 + +See: Church + +**Advice to Translators: Since every woman who has lost a husband is a widow, the translator needs to +make a way to say that this is a “widow who is in need of someone to care for her.”**: + +### Why did Paul write that families need to care for a widowed mother or grandmother? + +Paul wrote that children and grandchildren need to “honor” the widows in their family. Also, they needed +to she had food and a place to live. If Christians cared for widows in their family, this was “pleasing to +God”. + +**Advice to translators: A woman whose husband died was “widowed.”**: + +### Why did Paul write, “puts her certain hope in God”? + +Paul wrote that a widow “puts her certain hope in God.” Some scholars think Paul wrote about a widow +who placed her trust in God’s promises. She trusted God, not only for the promise to live with him in +heaven forever, but also that God would help her during her life. Other scholars think Paul described a +widow as someone who completely depended on God for her needs. For these reasons, a real widow prayed +constantly for God to give her what she needed. + +See: 1 Timothy 4:10; Isaiah 40:31; Romans 5:5 + +### Why did Paul write, “dead, even though she is still alive”? + +Paul wrote about certain widows as women who lived simply for their own “pleasure.” That is, they had a +lot of money and did what they thought would make them happy. He said they were “dead, even though +they were still alive.” That is,  though they had life physically, they did not have spiritual life. That is, they +did not worship God or depend on Him for their needs. + +See: Ephesians 2:3; James 5:5; + +See: Die (Death); Spirit (Spiritual); Born Again (New Life, Regeneration) + +### Why did Paul write, “denied the faith”? + +Paul wrote that people “denied the faith.” Scholars think Paul wrote to “deny” the faith to write about +people that said they believed in Jesus but they did not do the things that honor God.   + +See: Faith (Believe In) + +### What did the word, “enrolled” mean? + +The word “enrolled”(καταλέγω/g2639) was used to talk about making someone a part of a group. Scholars +think two different things about why widows were enrolled in the church. +1. Some scholars think the church made a list of widows (and perhaps also some women who never +married). These women did special things for the church. +2. Other scholars think that the list was simply the widows the church supported. These women did +not do anything special for the church. + +See: Church + +### Why did Paul write “wife of one husband”? + +Paul wrote “wife of one husband.” This can also be written “a husband of one wife” (see: 3:2), “a woman +of one man” or “of one husband.” Some scholars think Paul wrote about a woman who married only once. +Other scholars think Paul wrote about women who remained faithful to their husbands during their +marriage. + +### How did a widow wash the feet of the saints? +In  the ancient world, people washed the feet of people who came to their home. This honored the people +who came to their home. Usually, slaves or women did this (see: Genesis 18:4; 1 Samuel 25:41; John 13:4- +12). Some scholars think Paul wrote about a woman who washed other Christian’s  feet. Other scholars +think this was a metaphor. They think it was a woman who served other Christians in a humble way. + +See: Metaphor + +### Why did Paul write not to enroll younger widows on the list? + +Paul wrote not to put the names of younger widows on the lits. Some scholars think Paul did not want to +help younger widows for a long time. However, they think Paul did want to help younger widows in some +way. Fewer scholars think Paul wrote not to give younger widows any help from the church. + +### Why did Paul write for widows to “revoke their first commitment”? + +Paul wrote for widows to “revoke their first commitment.” To “revoke” was used to talk about someone not +doing the things they said they would do. “Commitment”(πίστις/g4102) can also be translated as “faith.” +Scholars do not agree on why Paul wrote these words. +1. Some scholars think that a widow dishonored her dead husband if she wanted to marry another +man. +2. Some scholars think that she had made a “commitment” to the church to remain single so she +could serve the church more, but then later did not do this. +3. Some scholars think that she had taken a “vow” of to not have sex again or get married again. +Then, she could serve the church greatly. +4. Some scholars think that she no longer served Jesus because she married a man who did not +believe in Jesus. In ancient times, a man could decide what god or gods his family worshipped. + +See: Church; Vow + +### What was a “busybody”? + +A “busybody” was a person who wanted to know things about other people. These were things they did not +need to know about these other people (see: 2 Thessalonians 3:11). This was a sin. It hurt the church. + +See: 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 + +See: Sin; Church + +### Why did Paul write, “some have already turned aside to Satan”? + +Someone “turned aside”(ἐκτρέπω/g1624) by no longer doing the things that honored God. Satan always +tried to get Christians to do the things he wanted them to do (see: 4:1; 2 Timothy 2:26). +1. Some scholars think Paul wrote about widows who lived in a way that dishonors God or married +someone who did not believe in Jesus. +2. Others scholars think some widows were doing things with magic. +3. Other scholars think some widows began to do the things demons wanted them to do (see: 4:1) + +See: Genesis 3:1, 13; Acts 5:3; 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 + +See: Satan (The Devil); Demon + +## 5:17-25 + +### What was an elder? + +See: 3:1-7 + +See: Elder + +### Why did Paul write, “you shall not muzzle an ox”? + +Paul said the same things as Deuteronomy 25:4. On a farm, an ox walked around in a circle to crush grain. +It was allowed to eat some of that grain. Paul wrote that an ox is fed with the grain on which he works. +Therefore, it is also right to give the elders of the church things so they can live because they serve other +Christians in a special way (see: 1 Corinthians 9:7-11). + +See: Church; Grain (Grain Offering); Elder + +### Where did someone write, “The laborer is worthy of his wages”? + +See: Matthew 10:10; Luke 10:7 + +### Why did Paul write about “two or three witnesses”? + +Paul said the same thing as Deuteronomy 19:15. This verse spoke about evil things such as murder. In +order to punish a person, at least two or three people needed to see the person who did the evil thing. In the +same way, saying that an elder sinned is a serious thing. It must be seen by people who have seen the sin. + +See: Matthew 18:16; 2 Corinthians 13:1 + +See: Elder; Sin + +### Who were the “chosen angels”? + +Paul wrote about the “chosen angels.” Some scholars think the “chosen angels” were those angels God +made to care for the church. They think Paul wrote about God, Jesus, and the angels so they would know +that the command Paul gave Timothy was serious. Other scholars think Paul wrote about certain angels +who are near God in heaven. + +See: Revelation 4-5 + +See: Angel; Elect; Church; Heaven + +### What did Paul write to Timothy to “keep these commands without partiality”? + +Paul wrote Timothy not to give “partiality’ when judging something. That is, when he judged something +for the elders. Paul wrote Timothy to treat every elder in the same way. In the same way, Timothy was not +to favor a certain elder for any reason. + +**Advice to translators: Timothy helped the elders to know what to do when they did not know what to do. +This is how he judged something.**: + +See: Galatians 2:6; James 2:1-13 + +See: Elder + +### Why did Paul warn Timothy not to lay hands on anyone too “hastily”? +When the church made someone a new leader, the current elders laid their hands on them and prayed with +them. Paul wanted Timothy to know for sure whether or not someone needed to be a leader before he made +them into one. He did not need to make people into leaders too quickly.   + +See: 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:6 + +See: Elder; Laying on of Hands + +### Why did Paul write “share in the sins of another person”? + +Paul wanted Timothy to know that Timothy would be guilty if he made someone a leader in the church too +quickly. That is, if he made someone a leader that did not need to be one. Perhaps Paul wrote about a leader +who continues to sin. + +See: Sin + +### Why did Paul write Timothy to “take a little wine”? + +Paul told Timothy to “take a little wine.” Paul was not writing Timothy to stop drink water. Instead, he +wrote him not to drink only water. Paul wrote Timothy to “take a little wine” as well as to drink water. +Some scholars think Paul wrote this to Timothy because Timothy had an illnesses. Some people thought +this could make someone feel better when they were ill. Other scholars think Paul wrote this to Timothy to +because sometimes the water was not good to drink where Timothy was. + +### What were sins that went before a person “into judgment”? + +Paul wrote about sins that went before a person “into judgment.” Some of the people they thought could be +church leaders had sinned in a certain way. They sinned in a way where everyone knew they sinned. +Because everyone knew about their sins, Timothy and the other leaders judged that they could not serve in +this way. However, Paul wrote that there were people who sinned secretly. These sins were sometimes +found out at a later time. Therefore, Timothy had to be careful when he chose new leaders for the church. + +See: Psalm 90:8; Jeremiah 16:17 + +See: Sin; Church