Christian Charity in the Ancient Church
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This notice, as well as the circumstance that widows and orphans are always named together, also places widows in relation to orphans. It was, moreover, natural- to entrust the bringing up of orphans to the widows. 34 Nor would that care of the poor and sick, which we at present regard as the chief point in the office of deaconesses, be entirely absent from that of widows, though it cannot be denied that it was strik- ingly in the background. If it had been of greater importance, more would cer...tainly have been said of it by Cyprian, Origen, and Tertullian. The main point 168 CHRISTIAN CHARITY IN ANCIENT CHURCH. [BOOK II. Certainly was the honourable position occupied by the widows, their belonging to the clerical order, presiding over and instructing the other women of the Church. A passage of Origen is in this respect decisive, for he interprets 1 Tim. V. 1 0, where it is said of widows, that they wash the saints' feet, figuratively of doctrine. And if the entertainment of strangers had then belonged to the duties of widows, such an exposition would hardly have been possible.
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This notice, as well as the circumstance that widows and orphans are always named together, also places widows in relation to orphans. It was, moreover, natural- to entrust the bringing up of orphans to the widows. 34 Nor would that care of the poor and sick, which we at present regard as the chief point in the office of deaconesses, be entirely absent from that of widows, though it cannot be denied that it was strik- ingly in the background. If it had been of greater importance, more would cer...tainly have been said of it by Cyprian, Origen, and Tertullian. The main point 168 CHRISTIAN CHARITY IN ANCIENT CHURCH. [BOOK II. Certainly was the honourable position occupied by the widows, their belonging to the clerical order, presiding over and instructing the other women of the Church. A passage of Origen is in this respect decisive, for he interprets 1 Tim. V. 1 0, where it is said of widows, that they wash the saints' feet, figuratively of doctrine. And if the entertainment of strangers had then belonged to the duties of widows, such an exposition would hardly have been possible.
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