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If the emperor visits her imperial majesty, or she him, then should ye also be most circumspect in eye and demeanour, and in all your words. Let her mark your mastery of yourselves and your modesty;[18]

"Honour widows that are widows indeed."[14]

Further, if we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (we find that)it is she who is entrusted by holiness with the care of continence of the flesh: she keeps the widow,[145]

In the first Epistle of Paul to Timothy: "Honour widows which are truly widows. But the widow that is wanton, is dead while she liveth."[722]

Let not the widows live a life of pleasure, lest they wax wanton against the word.[43]

These, then, have repentance within their reach, if they repent quickly, and do not remain in their pleasures;[29]

Behold, to what does the wisdom of this world urge a man? To live in pleasures. Whence it is said: A widow that liveth in pleasure, is dead while she liveth.[15]

The apostle in his first Epistle to Timothy: "But if any take not care of his own, and especially of those of his own household, he denies the faith, and is worse than an infidel."[724]

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For we bestow our attention; not on the study of words, but on the exhibition and teaching of actions,-that a person should either remain as he was born, or be content with one marriage; for a second marriage is only a specious adultery.[129]

: a seat to which (besides the "sixty years"[35]

), when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been "the wife of one man; "[82]

Choose your "widows not under sixty years of age,"[1]

Let the deaconess be a pure virgin; or, at the least, a widow who has been but once married, faithful, and well esteemed.[88]

Yea, and also when appointing widows, he says, "Let there be no one as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man; "[182]

And again: "But the younger widows pass by: for when they shall be wanton in Christ, they wish to marry; having judgment, because they have cast off their first faith."[723]

But if you admit one younger into the order of widows, and she cannot bear her widowhood in her youth, and marries, she will procure indecent reflections on the glory of the order of the widows, and shall give an account to God; not because she married a second time, but because she has "waxed wanton against Christ,"[2]

among houses"[96]

Nam apud Judaeos non erant admissae communes mulieres: verum prohibitum erat adulterinm. Qui autem dicit: "Uxorem duxi, non possum venire,"[166]

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And the same law commands "not to muzzle the ox which treadeth out the corn: for the labourer must be reckoned worthy of his food."[213]

In the first to Timothy: "Against an eider receive not all accusation."[727]

In the first Epistle of Paul to Timothy: "Rebuke them that sin in the presence of all, that others also may be afraid."[728]

of speaking; let them display their love, not by preferring[107]

Just as they carefully prepared their will and testament, and committed it to a trust, and adjured (the trustees to be faithful to their charge),[400]

For what a disgrace is suffered by your name, when one spends his days in intoxication and debauchery,[9]

mentions that he ordered Hezekiah medicine when he was sick. Paul, too, knows that a little wine does the stomach good.[25]

-we have a sufficient evidence even from the case of his disciple Timotheus; whom when he admonishes, "for the sake of his stomach and constant weaknesses," to use "a little wine,"[76]