1 TIMOTHY 5:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.”
and so they incur condemnation for having abandoned their first pledge — those who vow celibacy (pistis) and then violate it through remarriage incur condemnation (krima), having broken their initial commitment (prōtē pistis). The severity suggests that widows' vows carried sacramental weight.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 5:12
Paul having discoursed much concerning widows, and having settled the age at which they were to be admitted, saying, “Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old,” and having described the qualifications of a widow, “If she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the Saints' feet,” proceeds now to say, “But the younger widows refuse.” But concerning virgins, though the case of their falling is a much more gross one,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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