Verse 8
8. But Turning from the widows toward those relatives who may be in duty bound to support them.
If any Professing Christian person.
Provide not for his own Comprehending all whom, according to the dictates of natural affection, he ought to aid.
Own house In the direct line of ancestry and descendants.
Denied the faith For the faith confesses that the duties of natural love shall be richly felt and truly performed. His conduct truly proclaims to the heathen world that Christianity does not require faithfulness to the most sacred ties.
Worse than an infidel An unbeliever. For the very heathen often obey the law written on the heart, and are kindly affectioned toward their own; but these break not only this divine-natural law, but the fifth law of the decalogue, and the law in the gospel.
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