Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
But if any one has no children, he means, she is desolate. Her he especially consoles, saying that she is most truly a widow who has lost not only the consolation of a husband but that arising from children, yet she has God in the place of all.
