Saint Paul: Les épîtres pastorales

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very similar in format to the [commentaries by Allo, O.P., on Corinthians and Apocalypse](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_list&search=authors:%22%3DAllo%2C%20Ernest%20Bernard%2C%20O.P.%2C%201873-1945%22)@[22:34](https://youtu.be/9miupAXAvCw?t=1354): Emmanuel du Chalard, FSSPX: "Noi [primi seminaristi in Écône] abbiamo avuto un domenicano, la padre Spicq, che [fu] uno dei più grandi esegeti del secolo passato."* * *"[[1 Tim. 2:9](http://drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drl&bk=61&ch=2&l=9-#x):] *in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty*. The reason for this is that since it is natural for women to be softer of body than men, so too they are weaker in [higher] reason. But it pertains to reason to arrange the acts and effects of each thing. Now decency ( *ornatus* ) consists in being ordained and disposed in due order. Thus, in regard to internal beauty ( *decore* ), unless everything is properly arranged by reason, they do not have spiritual beauty. Consequently, because women are deficient in [higher] reason, he requires external ornamentation ( *ornatum* ) of them.""decent apparel" / *habitu ornatu* = καταστολή κοσμίωκαταστολή ("apparel") comes from the verb καταστέλλω, which means "to put in order, arrange, dispose", "to repress (quiet, appease), contain (as in continence)". (pp. 66ff, PDF p. 282ff.). *"Sapientis est ordinare* —It is for the wise man to order."κοσμίω < *cosmos* means order, clean, and (by extension) the universe.Modesty ( *verecundia* , shamefacedness) is αἰδώς {"bashfulness, i.e. (towards men), modesty or (towards God) awe:--reverence"} < α ("not") + εἴδω ("to know").* * *commentaries on St. Paul's letters to Sts. Timothy & Titus