Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

1. Number - Does this verse teach that a widow younger than 60 can not be a member of the local congregation? How is a widow "taken into the number"?

2. Threescore - What about a widow who Isaiah 59:1-21 year old? Why is a difference made between younger and older widows?

3. Wife - Can the church care for a widow who has never been married? What if she scripturally divorced her first husband and married again? What if her first husband died, she married a second time, and he also died?

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