1 Timothy 5:9

Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians

For we bestow our attention; not on the study of words, but on the exhibition and teaching of actions,-that a person should either remain as he was born, or be content with one marriage; for a second marriage is only a specious adultery.[129]

Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins

: a seat to which (besides the "sixty years"[35]

Tertullian To His Wife Book I

), when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been "the wife of one man; "[82]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book III

Choose your "widows not under sixty years of age,"[1]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI

Let the deaconess be a pure virgin; or, at the least, a widow who has been but once married, faithful, and well esteemed.[88]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

Yea, and also whenappointing widows, he says, "Let there be no one as a widow under threescore years old, having beenthe wife of one man; "[182]