Refuse — Do not choose. For when they are waxed wanton against Christ — To whose more immediate service they had addicted themselves. They want to marry — And not with a single eye to the glory of God; and so withdraw themselves from that entire service of the church to which they were before engaged.
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1 Timothy 5:11
11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;