1 Timothy 5:9
Douay-Rheims
Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.
Tertullian
How detrimental to faith, how obstructive to holiness, second marriages are, the discipline of the Church and the prescription of the apostle declare, when he suffers not men twice married to preside (over a Church ), when he would not grant a widow admittance into the order unless she had been "the wife of one man; " for it behoves God's altar to be set forth pure.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on 1Tim 5:9 (To His Wife Book I)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.