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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Jerome
AD 420
A widow who has ceased to have a husband to please, and who in the apostle’s language is a widow indeed, needs nothing more earnestly than perseverance. Remembering past enjoyments, she knows what gave her pleasure and what she has now lost. By rigid fasting and vigils she must quench the fiery darts of the devil.
