Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 5:13

13 And withal, they learn to be idle, wandring about from house to house , and not only idle, but tatlers also , and busie-bodies , speaking things which they ought not .

The Apostle here gives some other reasons, why he would not have Widowes too young taken into the Ministry of [illegible: 1 word] Church: They being young, and having no business at home, nor any Husbands to conduct and govern them, are subject to be gadding up and down;

and to be tatling [illegible: 1 letter]dly and impertinently, and that not only of their own, but others concernes.

Interesting themselves in the matters of other persons and Families.

And in the multitudes of words, folly being never wanting; they are prone to speak things which they ought not. From whence we may observe, that nothing more becometh Christians then a gravity and composedness of behaviour and speech, a government of their Tongues, and considering aforehand well what they speak.