Titus 2:3

Aged women. Compare 1 Tim. 5:2. Christianity elevated the status of womanhood to a position hitherto unknown. However, this new status required a corresponding response from Christian women. They were to fulfill God’s original purpose as bulwarks of tenderness and devotion. Thus, Christian women were to set the pattern of purity and devotion to home and children, both for their own daughters as well as for their pagan neighbors (see Titus 2:4).

As becometh holiness. Or, “as those engaged in sacred service,” literally, “as priestesses.”

Not false accusers. See on 2 Tim. 3:3.

Not given to. Or, “no longer remain enslaved to.”

Much wine. See on 1 Tim. 3:8. Because the church at Crete was newly established the “aged women” were those who had lived most of their lives by the standards and habits of a pagan society. The drinking of wine is a common practice in the Middle East and the Orient. After a long life of such practice, enslavement to wine would be the rule, not the exception.

Teachers of good things. In contrast with mere gossip, slander, or “old wives’ fables” (1 Tim. 4:7).