Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Ver. 5. Trusteth in God] Whereas while she had a husband and children, she trusted overmuch in them. The αιμαρροουσα sought not to our Saviour till all her money was gone. Zephaniah 3:12, they are an afflicted poor people, therefore they trust in the name of the Lord. When the apostle saith of the widow indeed, that she is desolate, he seemeth to allude to the Greek word for a widow, which comes of a verb that signifies to be desolate and deprived, χηρα α χηρω, desolor, destituo. So the Latin vidua a viduando, widow from breaved of her husband, and the Hebrew almanah of alam, to be dumb; because death having cut off her head, she hath none to speak for her.
And continueth in supplications, &c.] As Anna the prophetess did,Luke 2:36,38. A noble woman of Savoy, mother to John Galeaz, duke of Milan, after her husband's decease, caused a coin to be made, upon the one side whereof she drew these words, Sola facta, solum Deum sequor, Being left alone, I follow God alone.