<p>2:4 <i>So that they may train the young women</i>- This could suggest that there was a specific women's ministry intended, after the pattern of Miriam teaching the women of Israel.</p><p><i>To love their husbands, to love their children- </i>In an age of arranged marriage rather than love marriage, this was a required exhortation. And it shows that 'love' as God intends is an act of the will. It is not something which comes and then can leave. It can be practiced in response to a command like this. The 'love' they were to show them was not, therefore, the natural love of a women towards her children; but the conscious act of Christian love. They were living in an age, as we are, where people were &quot;without natural affection&quot; (Rom. 1:31; 2 Tim. 3:3). There was to be a resurrection of love, and a break with the spirit of the age in regard to feelings and family commitment. It could be that there was a specific reference here to not practicing abortion or infanticide, which were common.</p>