Let widows then be appointed ; she who is not less than fifty years of f. 49 a age and over, in order that by reason of her years she may be removed in! i. from the thought of having another husband. If you appoint one who is a girl to the place of a widow, and she doth not support her widowhood because of her youth, she will take a husband, and bring disgrace upon the glory of widowhood. She will give account to God, first for having had two husbands, and next for having promised to God to be a widow ; she has received as a widow and did not remain in widowhood. If there be the widow of a young man who was for a short time with her husband, and he died, 'or for any other reason which she receives and there be no separation1, and she remain alone by herself, being in the honour of widowhood, she will be blessed by God, because she has resembled that widow who was in Zareptah of Sidon, with whom the holy messenger, the Prophet of God, found rest, or she will be as Anna, who celebrated the coming of the Christ, and there was a testimony to her, and for her goodness she receives honour from man on the earth, and inherits glory m ii°n from God in Heaven. Let not then young widows be appointed to the