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I've always wondered why sixty was the cut-off age. The passage mentions that younger widows could remarry and bear children, but childbearing capacity, for many (most?) women ends long before sixty. Also, I've heard some use this passage to say that, for example, a 57-year-old in a bad situation could not be financially helped -- surely this is wrong. Is the enrollment a distinction between temporary and permanent help?
I've always wondered why sixty was the cut-off age. The passage mentions that younger widows could remarry and bear children, but childbearing capacity, for many (most?) women ends long before sixty. Also, I've heard some use this passage to say that, for example, a 57-year-old in a bad situation could not be financially helped -- surely this is wrong. Is the enrollment a distinction between temporary and permanent help?
I think the "list" in 1 Tim 5 is a special list of widows who are entitled to full time support by the church. It is for godly women who have lived lives full of good works (1 Tim 5:10) to have a "retirement"- to use a modern word- from having to worry about finances.
So the list in 1 Tim 5 is a kind of special support for a particular class of widows. But I don't think it disqualifies extraordinary help for a 50 yr old who is placed in bad situation by providence.
I think the "list" in 1 Tim 5 is a special list of widows who are entitled to full time support by the church. It is for godly women who have lived lives full of good works (1 Tim 5:10) to have a "retirement"- to use a modern word- from having to worry about finances.
So the list in 1 Tim 5 is a kind of special support for a particular class of widows. But I don't think it disqualifies extraordinary help for a 50 yr old who is placed in bad situation by providence.
Agree except for the retirement part. I think they may have actually served the church. Continuing to do good works for others, serving and helping others, maybe as an assistant to deacons.
Agree except for the retirement part. I think they may have actually served the church. Continuing to do good works for others, serving and helping others, maybe as an assistant to deacons.