{"id":9326,"date":"2024-05-28T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:36:11","slug":"%e7%bd%97%e9%a9%ac%e7%9a%84%e5%a9%9a%e5%88%b6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/bible-faith\/devotional-notes\/2024\/05\/%e7%bd%97%e9%a9%ac%e7%9a%84%e5%a9%9a%e5%88%b6\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Marriage System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ancient Greco-Roman marriage was strictly monogamous. Wives often enjoyed greater financial independence, and society encouraged widows and divorced wives to remarry. Widows could inherit their husbands&#8217; estates, meaning some poor widows remained poor, while rich widows became very wealthy. Some women who married multiple times even accumulated vast fortunes and were sought after by many men. Therefore, while most ordinary widows were &#8220;true widows&#8221; (1 Timothy 5:3), some were &#8220;wanton widows&#8221; who lived for pleasure (1 Timothy 5:6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1950\" height=\"1092\" src=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361.jpg 1950w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361-1536x860.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u52361-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1950px) 100vw, 1950px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Image:<\/strong> Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95\u201346 BC).<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Cato the Younger was a Roman Republican politician and orator, depicted in Dante&#8217;s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em> as the guardian of Mount Purgatory. He divorced his wife Marcia, who then remarried his 60-year-old friend Quintus Hortensius. Six years later, Marcia, now a widow, inherited Hortensius&#8217;s property and returned to Cato the Younger. The two became extremely wealthy. The &#8220;wanton widows&#8221; (1 Timothy 5:6) might refer to such widows who inherited significant wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-1.jpg 687w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-1-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u7f57\u9a6c\u7684\u5a5a\u5236-1-10x12.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Image:<\/strong> An ancient Roman wedding, now housed in the British Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Greco-Roman marriage was strictly monogamous. Wives often enjoyed greater financial independence, and society encouraged widows and divorced wives to remarry. Widows could inherit their husbands&#8217; estates, meaning some poor widows remained poor, while rich widows became very wealthy. Some women who married multiple times even accumulated vast fortunes and were sought after by many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotional-notes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11147,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/11147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccic-iowa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}