Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 74

by Cyprian

74. That all widows that are approved are to be held in honour.

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.”^[1] 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.”^[2]

Footnotes

1. 1 Tim. v. 3, 6.
2. 1 Tim. v. 11, 12.