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Husband, in our old Saxon speech meant houseband — the stay of the house; and a wife should be a "help meet" for the husband. She should be a "keeper at home." Phidias, when he depicted a woman, made her to sit under a snail shell, this signifying, that like the snail she should never be far away from her home.

(J. G. Pilkington.)

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KJV: The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

WEB: and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;