1 Timothy 3:11

Verse 11. Women, and so forth By the Greek again, sober, grave, and so forth By these women are commonly understood such as had made a vow of not marrying, and who assisted at the baptism of women; ( Witham.) that is deaconesses, who were women charged with the assistance, and sometimes with the instruction, of persons of their own sex. V.—Not given to detraction, [5] or calumnies, as in the Greek. A necessary admonition. Witham.