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1 | "the church's list" of dependent widows | 1 Tim 5:9 | gospelmidi | 3108 | ||
"The list" is the names of the widows who have no relatives taking care of them (1 Ti 5:8,16), and who depend upon the church even for daily bread (Ac 6:1). One commentator maintains that it might also be an honor roll for those widows who have lived exemplary Christian lives and who are worthy of supervisory roles in the church. 1 Ti 5:16 mentions the church being burdened by assisting widows who have other means of support. This indicates that the preferred interpretation is, "a list of widows dependent upon the church." |
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2 | "the church's list" of dependent widows | 1 Tim 5:9 | Makarios | 7630 | ||
The MacArthur Study Bible comments on this verse, "In NT culture, 60 was considered retirement age. By that age, older women would have completed their child rearing and would have the time, maturity, and character to devote their lives in service to God and the church. They also would not be likely to remarry and become preoccupied with that commitment. 'be taken into the number'. More clearly rendered, "be put on the list." This was not a list of those widows eligible for specially recognized church support (all widows in the church who had no other means of support were; v.3), but rather those eligible for specially recognized church ministry (cf. Titus 2:3-5). 'the wife of one man'. Lit "one-man woman" (cf. 3:2,12). It does not exclude women who have been married more than once (cf. v. 14; 1 Cor. 7:39), but it refers to a woman totally devoted and faithful to her husband, a wife who had displayed purity of thought and action in her marriage." | ||||||
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