Quote of the Day: "almost 4 kids, 1 dog, 1 hubby...that's life!" | I do not wish to embarass my old chum, Jennifer Ott, by revealing the source of the quotation.
It does, at least, encourage the avoidance of polyandry. But the tertiary position of the husband combined with the secondary position of the dog demonstrates that older women have failed in their scriptural duties in instructing the younger women.
If the older women fail to instruct the younger, we are in real trouble. Young women do not often listen to men. (Single young women may often pretend to listen to a young man they have targeted, of course.)
Titus 2:3-4 KJV The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
The Greek is interesting. Two compound verbs are used. Compounds of phileo akin to our "Philadelpha", "love of brothers". Phileo is affectionate love of those like us, or things we desire. Young women know that they are the grandest of human beings. The good Lord has made them so. So that they can properly take care of babies, and that the babies may be drawn to them. The compound Greek verbs are telling young women to have affectionate love toward husban and children as toward fellow human beings, despite their obvious deficiencies.
I am not one to preach about this. It has recently come to my attention that I have been consistently and egregiously coming short of the behavior intructed for aged men in the preceding verse. It is interesting that I seem to favor those moral injunctions that cannot possibly apply to me.
