The Apostle [Paul] is asking in Philippians 1 which is most worthwhile for him, to live or to die. Often has that question presented itself to us, and perhaps we like the Apostle, have answered that “we are in a strait.” But I fear we may have used the words in a sense far different from Paul's. When we have wished for death, we meant to say, “I know not which alternative I ought most to dread, the afflictions of life, from which death would release me, or the terrors of death, from which life protects me.” In other words, life and death look to us like two evils of which we know not which is the less. As for the Apostle, they look to him like two immense blessings of which he knows not which is the better (Adolphe Monod).
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WIDOWS

WIDOWS

WIDOWS

  1. Character of true # Lu 2:37 1Ti 5:5,10
  2. GOD 2a) Surely hears the cry of

    # Ex 22:23

2b) Judges for # De 10:18 Ps 68:5 2c) Relieves # Ps 146:9 2d) Establishes the border of # Pr 15:25 2e) Will witness against oppressors of # Mal 3:5 3) Exhorted to trust in God # Jer 49:11 4) SHOULD NOT BE 4a) Afflicted # Ex 22:22 4b) Oppressed # Jer 7:6 Zec 7:10 4c) Treated with violence # Jer 22:3 4d) Deprived of raiment in pledge # De 24:17 5) SHOULD BE 5a) Pleaded for # Isa 1:17 5b) Honoured, if widows indeed # 1Ti 5:3 5c) Relieved by their friends # 1Ti 5:4,16 5d) Relieved by the Church # Ac 6:1 1Ti 5:9 5e) Visited in affliction # Jas 1:27 5f) Allowed to share in our blessings # De 14:29 16:11,14 24:19-21 6) Though poor, may be liberal # Mr 12:42,43 7) When young, exposed to may temptations # 1Ti 5:11-14 8) SAINTS 8a) Relieve # Ac 9:39 8b) Cause joy to # Job 29:13 8c) Disappoint not # Job 31:16 9) THE WICKED 9a) Do no good to # Job 24:21 9b) Send, away empty # Job 22:9 9c) Take pledges from # Job 24:3 9d) Reject the cause of # Isa 1:23 9e) Vex # Eze 22:7 9f) Make a prey of # Isa 10:2 Mt 23:14 9g) Slay # Ps 94:6 10) Curse for perverting judgment of # De 27:19 11) Woe to those who oppress # Isa 10:1,2 12) Blessings on those who relieve # De 14:29 13) A type of Zion in affliction # La 5:3 14) Were released from all obligation to former husbands # Ro 7:3 15) Were clothed in mourning after the decease of husbands # Ge 38:14,19 2Sa 14:2,5 16) Reproach connected with # Isa 54:4 17) Increase of, threatened as a punishment # Ex 22:24 Jer 15:8 18:21 18) LAWS RESPECTING 18a) Not to be oppressed # Ex 22:22 De 27:19 18b) Raiment of, not to be taken in pledge by creditors # De 24:17 18c) Bound to perform their vows # Nu 30:9 18d) Not to intermarry with priests # Le 21:14 18e) To be allowed to glean in fields and vineyards # De 24:19 18f) To have a share of the triennial tithe # De 14:28,29 26:12,13 18g) To share in public rejoicings # De 16:11,14 18h) When daughters of priests and childless to partake of the holy things # Le 22:13 18i) When left childless, to be married by their husband’s nearest of kin # De 25:5,6 Ru 3:10-13 4:4,5 Mt 22:24-26 19) Allowed to marry again # Ro 7:3 20) Intermarrying with, of kings considered treason # 1Ki 2:21-24 21) Not to be deplored by, considered a great calamity # Job 27:15 Ps 78:64 22) Were under the special protection of God # De 10:18 Ps 68:5 23) Were frequently oppressed and persecuted # Job 24:3 Eze 22:7 24) Specially taken care of by the Church # Ac 6:1 1Ti 5:9 25) Often devoted themselves entirely to God’s service # Lu 2:37 1Ti 5:10 26) Instances of great liberality in # 1Ki 17:9-15 Mr 12:42,43 27) ILLUSTRATIVE OF 27a) A desolate condition # Isa 47:8,9 27b) Zion in captivity # La 1:1