1Ti 5:9 | TNotes | STEP | 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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‏ 1 Timothy 5:9

5:9 ^a at least sixty: Young widows required a different approach (5:11-15 ^b). Young and old were customarily divided at around forty; elders would probably have been over fifty (see Titus 2:2 ^c).

• was faithful to her husband (literally was the wife of one husband): The grammar is identical in 1 Tim 3:2 ^d, 12 ^e; Titus 1:6 ^f.