1 Timothy 5:13

1 Timothy 5:13. The very functions of the registered widows would tend in the case supposed to aggravate the evil. Their work of ministration, like that of a District Visitor or Sister of Mercy in modern times, involved frequent visits to many houses; and this might easily pass into simple idleness, or still worse, into the laborious idleness described in the word ‘busybodies,' carrying to one family the tittle-tattle of another things that for this reason or that ought not to be spoken of.