Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 5:16

16 If any man or woman that believeth have widowes , let them relieve them , and let not the church be charged , that it may relieve them that are widows indeed .

If any men or women that are Christians, have any women that are nearly related to them;

If themselves be able, let them relieve them,

and not turn off that natural duty which they owe to their Parents, or near Relations to relieve them, to the Church, which hath others enough to look after, and upon whom there lyes only a Moral and Christian Obligation.

That so the Almes of the Church may go to relieve those only who are perfectly desolate, having neither Husbands, nor any other near Relations to provide for them.

Marginal references: verse 3.[illegible: 1 letter].