THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO TIMOTHY - Chapter 2 - Verse 10
Verse 10. But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good
works. That is, it is not appropriate for women who profess to be
the followers of the Saviour, to seek to be distinguished for personal,
external decorations. If they are Christians, they have seen the vanity
of these things, and have fixed the heart on more substantial realities.
They are professed followers of Him "who went about doing good," and the
performance of good works especially becomes them. They profess to have
fixed the affections on God their Saviour, and to be living for heaven;
and it is not becoming in them to seek such ornaments as would indicate
that the heart is supremely attached to worldly things. There is great
beauty in this direction. Good works, or deeds of benevolence, eminently
become a Christian female. The nature of woman seems to be adapted to
the performance of all deeds demanding kindness, tenderness, and
gentleness of feeling; of all that proceeds from pity, sympathy, and
affection; and we feel, instinctively, that while acts of hardy
enterprise and daring in a good cause peculiarly become a Christian man,
there is something exquisitely appropriate to the female character in
deeds of humble and unobtrusive sympathy and benevolence. God seems to
have formed her mind for just such things, and in such things it
occupies its appropriate sphere, rather than in seeking external
adorning.
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