9
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
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Verse 9. Not under threescore years of age. Some think he speaks only of such a widow as was placed over all the rest: but the common exposition is of all such widows as were maintained in that manner, who made a vow of chastity, who assisted the ministers of the Church in looking to the poor, and in the administering baptism to women.—Who hath been the wife of one husband; that is hath never been married but once. Witham.
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