3. To the four requirements for aged men four somewhat similar requirements for aged women are now added: (urge) aged women similarly (to be) reverent in demeanor, not slanderers and not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is excellent. In their entire bearing (hence, not only in their dress, 1 Tim. 2:9) as well as in their deportment, aged women must be reverent, conducting themselves as if they were servants in God’s temple, for such, indeed, they are! Cf. Rev. 1:6. The theme-song of