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Feminine Grace and Encouraging Weak Men 1 Cor. 7:8, 9 "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." A good point to remember is that it is better for a man to marry [not remarry, or not to marry a woman of fornication] rather than to burn in lust. Considering the effect of the loss of restraint among society, the flagrant fornication, and the ignorance of men and church officials, encouragement of male virtue, not sexual excitement, is needed. Women have hormones as well as men. Hopefully, their parents will have trained them well. Marriage is a delicate institution and the participants need to be ready. Many of the people of the world are committing fornication and adultery. God will judge such: “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” (Heb. 13:4) Also, even though the verse is not speaking to the married and divorced, a woman even though she is repentant of her adultery and burns does not give her a right to go back to the former husband or to remarry.
A chaste widow can not remarry! Reproof of “The Shepherd of Hermas”
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