settings very different from the urban communities where their children now live. So it is vitally important that churches find ways of filling this vacuum. Opportunities need to be created for women with good reputations to advise younger ones. In the ancient world, husbands and children were regarded as “the glory of young womanhood”90 and there were very few opportunities for women outside the home. Thus Paul assumes that all the young women in Crete will be married, and the specific