1 Timothy, Chapter 5, verses 1-10
1 Rules to be observed in reproving, 3 Of widowsLuke, Chapter 20, verses 27-44
27 He convinceth the Sadducees that denied the resurrection, 41 How Christ is the son of David20
20:28 Deu 25:5.
20:34 The children of this world - The inhabitants of earth, marry and are given in marriage - As being all subject to the law of mortality; so that the species is in need of being continually repaired.
20:35 But they who obtain that world - Which they enter into, before the resurrection of the dead.
20:36 They are the children of God - In a more eminent sense when they rise again.
20:37 That the dead are raised, even Moses, as well as the other prophets showed, when he calleth - That is, when he recites the words which God spoke of himself, I am the God of Abraham, .It cannot properly be said, that God is the God of any who are totally perished. Exo 3:6.
20:38 He is not a God of the dead, or, there is no God of the dead - That is, tho term God implies such a relation, as cannot possiblysubsist between him and the dead; who in the Sadducees' sense are extinguished spirits; who could neither worship him, nor receive good from him. So that all live to him - All who have him for their God, live to and enjoy him. This sentence is not an argument for what went before; but the proposition which was to be proved. And the consequence is apparently just. For as all the faithful are the children of Abraham, and the Divine promise of being a God to him and his seed is entailed upon them, it implies their continued existence and happiness in a future state as much as Abraham's.And as the body is an essential part of man, it implies both his resurrection and theirs; and so overthrows the entire scheme of the Sadducean doctrine.
20:40 They durst not ask him any question - The Sadducees durst not.One of the scribes did, presently after.
20:42 Psa 110:1.
5
5:1 Rebuke not - Considering your own youth, with such a severity as would otherwise be proper.
5:3 Honour - That is, maintain out of the public stock.
5:4 Let these learn to requite their parents - For all their former care, trouble, and expense.
5:5 Widows indeed - Who have no near relations to provide for them; and who are wholly devoted to God. Desolate - Having neither children, nor grandchildren to relieve her.
5:6 She that liveth in pleasure - Delicately, voluptuously, in elegant, regular sensuality, though not in the use of any such pleasures as are unlawful in themselves.
5:7 That they - That is, the widows.
5:8 If any provide not - Food and raiment. For his own - Mother and grandmother, being desolate widows. He hath - Virtually. Denied the faith - Which does not destroy, but perfect, natural duties. What has this to do with heaping up money for our children, for which it is often so impertinently alleged? But all men have their reasons for laying up money. One will go to hell for fear of want; another acts like a heathen, lest he should be worse than an infidel.
5:9 Let not a widow be chosen - Into the number of deaconesses, who attended sick women or travelling preachers.Under threescore - Afterwards they were admitted at forty, if they were eminent for holiness. Having been the wife of one husband - That is, having lived in lawful marriage, whether with one or more persons successively.
5:10 If she hath washed the feet of the saints - Has been ready to do the meanest offices for them.