The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.
CHAPTER 5 1 Timothy 5:1-4 1. Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 1. Seniorem ne aspere objurges sed hortare ut patrem, juniores ut fratres; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 2. Mulieres natu grandiores, ut matres; juniores, ut sorores, cum omni castitate. 3. Honour widows that are widows indeed. 3.
Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:1-25
Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed. Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office.
Commenting on 1 Timothy 5:3-16
Now she that is a widow indeed,.... A real widow, whom the Jews (r) call "a perfect one", in opposition to one that is divorced, or a brother's widow, that has had the shoe plucked off for her: and such an one as the apostle means, is one that is desolate, or "alone": who has neither husband to take care of her, nor children or...