Tune: Sandys
('Teach me, my God and King')
1 Timothy 4 v.9-16
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Let widows (/widowers) in welfare
Over age sixty share
In the church, for them do provide
Where they no help beside
If been wife of one man
And if be showed it can
That good works done, brought up children
They shall qualify then
If helped strangers and saints
In purity, no taints
If they afflicted have relieved
In good works have believed
But younger widows not
Be received, for their lot
After divorce, quick to marry
Condemned now such be, see
Their faith they have off cast
Their silence does not last
But they idle, wander about
From house to house, no doubt
And they do tattle to
And tell gossip anew
Speaking things which they ought not speak
Not humble, kind, or meek
Young women, stay married
Bear children, faith not slid
Manage the house, no occasion
Give for your reproach, none
Families, do relieve
Assist widows, believe
Show faith in action, so provide
Widows with you reside
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: February 1st, 2020 03:08
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6.6.8.6. metre. It sems it's not old women/men that gossip so much, as the young ones! This is how it was in those days, whether PC correct these days or not.
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Comments6
Ah, I see a failing man struggling with the loss of his women. There is no harder blow to the head than losing your wife or husband and I have to say you have written a stunning attribute to the lives that are lost. Keep the spirit and the good Lords gestures up in order for our prayers to be fulfilled...
Thanks Kevin. Nothing personal to me in this, just continuing a series of poems from Letters to Timothy in the Bible.
Hope I'm not insensitive here. It's not just a matter of whether it's PC correct, I realise.
Hi Orchidee!
A good write.
Always be careful not to gossip especially in the workplace you never who's listening.
Stay neutral.
Keep writing FineB
Thanks Fine.
A thought provoking read and comments.
Thanks M.
Interesting write Orchi. Now being a widower I am open to gossip as many of my friends are ladies, some may think it is more than this but they are only friends and have been friends to both Joyce and I for many years.
Gossip is evil, do not trust it.
Andy
Thanks Gold.
Hello LG. maybe Paul did not mean 'real' widows, as it were, but just some younger women who had 'put away' (divorced) their husbands, as they got fed up with them, or something!
I suppose with the culture of those days, the young 'widowers' (again, not 'real' ones) were not mentioned, as men were superior then. Oops, we won't get away with that these days!
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