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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Timothy 5:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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5:9 at least sixty: Young widows required a different approach (5:11-15). Young and old were customarily divided at around forty; elders would probably have been over fifty (see Titus 2:2). • was faithful to her husband (literally was the wife of one husband): The grammar is identical in 1 Tim 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6.
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