ACC ~ 1 Timothy 5 v9a

WIDOWHOOD A SPIRITUAL REALITY. CHRYSOSTOM: It is possible to be a widow and not be enrolled in the rank of widows, as when a woman has not as yet accepted this way of life. … Paul allows the uncommitted woman to remarry if she so desires. But he strongly admonishes the one who has professed perpetual widowhood to God but then has later gotten married, because she has treated superficially her commitment to God. ON VIRGINITY 39.2.

WIDOWS ONLY, OR DEACONESSES AS WELL? THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: What is said here applies only to the order of widows and not to deaconesses, as some believe. COMMENTARY ON 1 TIMOTHY.

ADDRESSED TO WOMEN CONSIDERING ORDINATION AS DEACONESSES. PELAGIUS: What is being said here applies in particular to the women who are being considered for ordination as deaconesses. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST LETTER TO TIMOTHY.

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