Bible Dictionary: Widows: Allowed to Marry Again

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Romans 7:3
So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
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Letter cxxiii. To Ageruchia.
... who have been married once and have become widows are to ... [3251] Only monogamists
are allowed to share ... was willing to burn herself rather than marry king Iarbas ...
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Letter Lxxvii. To Oceanus.
... condemning seduction and adultery; lust is allowed to range ... same apostle wills that
the younger widows should marry ... she had done so she was free to marry again. ...
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Appendix iv
... in times of Persecution one is allowed to mollify ... of a bishop, therefore other
Christians can marry again. ... of the Apostle that the young widows should marry ...
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Picture of a Pauline Church
... and raising anxious questions as to whether widows might marry again, whether a ... and
looked with censure on their brethren who allowed themselves this ...
/.../stalker/the life of st paul/chapter viii picture of a.htm

The Bishop's Burthen
... off his wife under pretext of adultery, might he marry again? ... and also the proud
virgins and widows who despised ... He himself would not have allowed for a moment ...
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The Polity Settled by Moses; and How He Disappeared from among ...
... Nor is any thing to be allowed, by imitation whereof any ... want; [23] to women also
that are widows, and to ... he is dead, her first husband would marry her again ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 8 the polity settled.htm

Of Indulgence and Pure Volition. The Question Illustrated.
... the will of God," seeing that they are allowed by Him ... regarded as "good." "Better
it is to marry than to ... properly refers to "the unmarried and widows," for whom ...
/.../tertullian/on exhortation to chastity/chapter iii of indulgence and pure.htm

Yorkshire and the Settlement System.
... For married women the colour was blue; for widows, white; for young women, pink;
and for ... If a young man desired to marry, he was not even allowed to speak ...
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The First Native Converts and Christian Schools
... no fewer than 21,000,000 were returned by the census as widows, of whom ... they counted
a sufficient ground for divorce, and they allowed him to marry again. ...
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Life at Herrnhut.
... They undertook the care of widows and orphans ... If a man fell in love and desired to
marry, he must ... allowed to strike his wife, and no wife was allowed to henpeck ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter iv life at herrnhut.htm