⁹ Let no widow be chosen who is under sixty years old, and let her be such a one as was the wife of one man, ¹⁰ and well reported of in good works: if she has raised children, if she has been generous to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has ministered to those who were in adversity, if she was continually given to all manner of good works. ¹¹ The younger widows refuse. For when they have begun to grow wanton, to the dishonour of Christ, then they want to marry,