Man or woman that believeth [π ι σ τ ο ς η π ι σ τ η]. Lit. believing man or woman. But pistov h should be omitted. Read, if any woman that believeth.

Have widows [ε χ ε ι χ η ρ α ς]. 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 chaple 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."

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