1 TIMOTHY 5:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,”
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years old and has been the wife of one husband — the widows' register (katalegō) established institutional criteria: advanced age (hexekonta eti) and marital monogamy (henos andros gyne). These qualifications presumably indicate stability and wisdom.
Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 5:9
He had said, “Let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents.” He had also said, “She that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.” He had said, “If she provides not for her own she is worse than an infidel.” Having mentioned the qualities which not to have would render a woman unworthy to be reckoned among the widows, he now mentions what she ought to have besides. What then? Are we to receive her for her years? What merit is there in that? It is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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