Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Ver. 3. Honour widows indeed] That is, such as are widows not by divorce, but by the death of their husbands, and loss of their children; such as was Naomi. Honour them, that is, take them into the college of widows, to be maintained at the Church's charge. In this sense ministers are to have double honour, see 1Ti 5:17 which is therefore so termed, because they testified thereby the virtues of those so sustained.