Bible Dictionary: Widows: should not Be: Treated With Violence

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Jeremiah 22:3
Thus said the LORD; Execute you judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
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The Second Canonical Epistle of the Same.
... be interrogated too, and that a profession should be demanded ... A widow put into the
catalogue of widows, that is ... women, and their accomplices, be not admitted to ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/the second canonical epistle of.htm

Letter xii. Leo, Bishop of the City of Rome, to all the Bishops of ...
... barbarians, and have lost their spotless purity not in spirit ... ought to be observed
that they should be neither degraded to the rank of widows [115] nor ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter xii leo bishop of.htm

1 Timothy v. 21-23
... and Deacons, of men, and women, of widows and elders ... messenger of Satan" was sent
that he should not be "exalted ... in this passage, but its readings are not given ...
/.../homily xvi 1 timothy v.htm

Athanasius' Account of the Deeds of violence Committed at ...
... and the dwellings even of orphans and widows were forcibly ... provision out of the public
revenue should be given him ... Adding that he himself did not act wisely in ...
/.../chapter xxviii athanasius account of the.htm

Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
... upon a great contest, [3959]ib.; should be an ... Widowhood, better not professed than
to be forsaken, [3990 ... Widows, what makes, [3993]450; to receive honor from ...
/.../homilies on the epistles to.htm

part iii.
... For our fixed determination is, that you should continue, agreeably ... many were urged
by their children, not to be ... How many widows and how many orphans, who were ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/part iii 2.htm

The Invisible Patriarch
... His Church forever and that the gates of Hell should not prevail against ... They had
not long to wait ... were burned down; Bishops, priests, virgins, widows"all, in ...
/.../forbes/saint athanasius/chapter 8 the invisible patriarch.htm

Of the Popish Mass. How it not Only Profanes, but Annihilates the ...
... To do injustice to widows, to pillage pupils, to molest ... in those which are of God,
there should be the ... which, even the sacraments themselves are not sacraments ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 18 of the popish.htm

1 Cor. xvi. 1
... we see that such an one who invited widows and made ... also of the resources out of
which you should make your ... And this also do thou practise not in selling only ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xliii 1 cor xvi.htm

Article xxvii (xiii): of Monastic Vows.
... Therefore Paul condemns widows, not because they marry, for he ... And all godly minds
should certainly know that the ... on account of them, and not through mercy on ...
/.../the apology of the augsburg confession/part 35 article xxvii xiii .htm