1 Timothy 5:10 (WEB)
being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
Fathers and councils · 10
Ambrose of Milan
““Well reported of for good works, if she have brought up children; if she have lodged strangers; if she have washed the saints’ feet; if she have ministered to those suffering tribulation; if, lastly, she have followed after every good work.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For she had “been the wife of one man,” had requited her parents, had guided her house piously, was “well-reported of for good works,” had “brought up children,” as often travailing in birth of them as she saw them swerving from Thee.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 4, 9, 10, 14.
Read the whole comment“…oblation at Thy altar, twice a day, at morning and even-tide, coming to Thy church without intermission—not for vain gossiping, nor old wives’ “fables,” but in order that she might listen to Thee in Thy sermons, and Thou to her in her prayers?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 10.
Read the whole comment“And hence the apostle, when he would commend the well-deserving widow, says, “If she is hospitable, if she has washed the saints’ feet.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 10.
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Jerome
“…if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“He had previously described his ideal widow as one who had been the wife of one man, who had brought up children, who was well reported of for good works, who had relieved the afflicted with her substance, whose trust had been in God, and who had continued in prayer day and night.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 9, 10.
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Tertullian
“Further, if we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (we find that) it is she who is entrusted by holiness with the care of continence of the flesh: she keeps the widow, and sets on the virgin the seal and raises the self-made eunuch to the realms of heaven.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 3, 9, 10; 1 Cor. vii. 39, 40.
Read the whole comment“…suffers not men twice married to preside (over a Church), when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been “the wife of one man;” for it behoves God’s altar to be set forth pure.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment- Tertullian, To His Wife II.4Book II
“Who will suffer her to creep into prison to kiss a martyr’s bonds? nay, truly, to meet any one of the brethren to exchange the kiss? to offer water for the saints’ feet? to snatch (somewhat for them) from her food, from her cup? to yearn (after them)? to have (them) in her mind?” — editor's note: 1 Tim. v. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“1 Tim. v. 10.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 2.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 2.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 58.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 2.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 58.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 58.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 58.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 2.
Cited together in To His Wife I.7.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 2.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 58.
Cited together in Confessions IX.9.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Confessions V.9.
Cited together in Confessions IX.9.