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NASB | 1 Timothy 5:9 ¶ A widow is to be put on the list only if she is not less than sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 5:9 ¶ A widow is to be put on the list [to receive regular assistance] only if she is over sixty years of age, [having been] the wife of one man, |
Subject: "the church's list" of dependent widows |
Bible Note: 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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