Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 5:8

8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house , he hath denyed the faith , and is worse than an infidel .

Here is a manifest distinction betwixt his own [non-Latin text not transcribed], and his own houshold [non-Latin text not transcribed], they are distinguished by terms in the Greek, and as to the care which men and Women ought to extend to them. By his own he means his Relations all of a mans Family or Stock by his own houshold, he seemeth to mean those who co[illegible: 1 letter]abit with him. The Apostle saith that he who is careless of providing for the former (so far as he is able) but especially for the latter

hath denyed the Christian Faith, that is in the practice of it, though in words he professeth it, he liveth not up to the rule of the Gospel which directeth other things,

and is worse than an Heathen, that believeth not, because many good natured Heathens do this by the Light of Nature, and those who do it not, yet are more excusable, being strangers to the obligation of the revealed Law of God in the case.

Marginal references: Or, kindred.; 2 Tim. 3.5. Tit. 1.16.