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Man or woman that believeth (πιστὸς ἣ πιστὴ)
Lit. believing man or woman. But πιστὸς ἢ should be omitted. Read, if any woman that believeth.
Have widows (ἔχει χήρας)
If any Christian woman have relatives or persons attached to her household who are widows
The church be charged
Holtzmann quotes an inscription in the chapel of the Villa Albani at Rome: “To the good Regina her daughter has erected this memorial: to the good Regina her widowed mother, who was a widow for sixty years and never burdened the church after she was the wife of one husband. She lived 80 years, 5 months, and 26 days.”