Verse 6
6. St. Paul now shows one of the arts by which these antinomians gain adherents, namely, by appealing to the weaknesses of weak women. St.
Paul more than once found noble women who were converted by his public preaching. Acts 17:4. But these proselytes crept, like serpents, into the women’s apartments to suit their doctrines to their tempers.
Creep Metaphor, perhaps, from serpents.
Silly women The Greek diminutive, womanlings, females of a smaller intellectual magnitude than the average.
Laden with sins With remorseful views of past courses, and so looking for some method of absolution. So the Jesuits have, during their whole history, held the secrets of families in possession through means of the female confessional. Women laden with a life of sins found the convent their last resource.
Led… lusts The word lusts, same as 2 Timothy 2:22, where see note. Here the strong impulses and passions of the feminine sex are meant, by which the proselytes gained them over.
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