“But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.”
But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she is alive — the widow who pursues hedone (pleasure/luxury) experiences spiritual death (thnēskō) in her living; her condition is paradoxically vitally compromised through vice. Luxury corrupts faith.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 5:6
She who being a widow has not made choice of a worldly life, is a widow indeed; she who trusts in God as she ought, and continues instant in prayer night and day, is a widow indeed. Not that she, who has children, is not a widow indeed. For he commends her who brings up children as she ought. But if any one has not children, he means, she is desolate, and her he consoles, saying, that she is most truly a widow, who has lost not only the consolation of a husband, but that…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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