{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-551","native_reference":{"book_number":610,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p>Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians</p><p>For we bestow our attention; not on the study of words, but on the exhibition and teaching of actions,-that a person should either remain as he was born, or be content with one marriage; for a second marriage is only a specious adultery.[129]</p><p>Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins</p><p>: a seat to which , when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been \"the wife of one man; \"[82]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book III</p><p>Choose your \"widows not under sixty years of age,\"[1]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI</p><p>Let the deaconess be a pure virgin; or, at the least, a widow who has been but once married, faithful, and well esteemed.[88]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV</p><p>Yea, and also whenappointing widows, he says, \"Let there be no one as a widow under threescore years old, having beenthe wife of one man; \"[182]</p>","source_html_sha256":"7b07d6c1a9ba5ca33a590df6f722ec41f79aaab33a8cf5bdbab5f640bbd60dbc","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":551,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"d7119b3e6ce99cd19bef0e245792ad110c98926fe6be1996c9ab987d7dff2422","translator":null,"work":null}