Verse 6
For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,
"One of the great virtues of womanhood, namely, that of trusting another, is here turned into a weakness by Satan. Eve was deceived. Adam sinned with his eyes wide open."[14] Paul did not say that all women were capable of being so deceived, but a certain class, present in every society; and as Ward said, "They are fruit waiting to be plucked by a `nice man' with a novelty!"[15]
The notorious Manson, sentenced by the State of California for murder, was supported and maintained by a small company of women whom he had deceived; and there has hardly been a charlatan in all history whose modus operandi failed to exhibit this same device. A similar deception was perpetrated against Patricia Hearst.
[13] Don DeWelt, Paul's Letters to Timothy and Titus (Joplin, Missouri: College Press, 1961), p. 237.
[14] Kenneth S. Wuest, op. cit., p. 146.
[15] Ronald A. Ward, op. cit., p. 190.
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