32. Without carefulness (auepiuvous). Not a good transla- tion, because carefulness has lost its earlier sense of anwiety. So Latimer: ‘This wicked carefulness of men, when they seek how to live—like as if there were no God at all.” See on take no thought, Matt. vi. 25. Rev., free from cares. Ignatius uses the phrase év dpepiuvig Oeod in godly carelessness (Poly- carp, Vil.).
34. There is a difference. The textual question here is very perplexing, and it is well-nigh impossible to explain the differences to the English reader. He must observe, 1st. That yuvn wife is also the general term for woman, whether virgin, married, or widow. 2d. That peuépuora, A. V., there is a dif JSerence, literally means, is divided, so that the literal rendering of the A. V., would be, the wife and the virgin are divided. Some of the best texts insert «at and both before and after 7s divided, and join that verb with the close of ver. 33, so that it
* The student should read here the opening chapter of the seventh book of Plato’s ‘‘ Republic.”
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reads: careth for the things of the world how he may please his wife, and he is distracted. This makes yuv7 and srapJévos (A. V., wife and virgin) begin a new sentence connected with the preceding by «al and. Ivv} is rendered woman, and the words 1) ayamos the unmarried, instead of beginning a sentence as A. V., are placed directly after woman as a qualifying phrase, so that the reading is 7) yuv7 1) dyapos the unmarried woman, and both this and % mapIévos the virgin are nominative to pepyva careth. The whole, then, from the beginning of ver. 33, will read: But he who is married careth for the things of the world how he may please his wife, and he is distracted ; and the unmarried woman and the virgin care for the things
of the Lord.*
35. Snare (Bpoxov). Lit., a noose or slip-knot for hanging or strangling. Thus Homer of Jocasta: ‘She went to Hades having suspended a noose on high from the lofty roof” (“ Odyssey,” xi., 278). Sophocles, of Antigone: ‘‘ We descried her hanging by the neck, slung by a thread-wrought halter of fine linen ” (“ Antigone,” 1222). Also a snare for birds, the meshes of a net.
That ye may attend (spos—evzdpedpov). Only here in the New Testament. From ed well, mdpedpos sitting beside. That ye may attend is a kind of circumlocution. The Greek reads literally: for that which is seemly and for that which is assid- uous. Assiduous conveys the sense of the word as nearly as possible, since etymologically it means s7téing close at. One is reminded of Mary at Bethany sitting at Jesus’ feet, Luke x. 39.
Without distraction (adepucrdotws). See on Luke x. 40. The same word compounded here with a not, is used of Martha’s being cwmbered or distracted with much serving.
36. Behaveth himself uncomely (acynpoveiv). Acts un- becomingly, either by throwing temptation in the daughter’s
* Rev. follows the A. V. So Meyer, Alford, De Wette, Ellicott, Tischen- dorf; and it is true, as Ellicott observes, that this gives a clearer and sharper antithesis than the other; but MS. authority is clearly in favor of the other reading. So Edwards, following the text of Westcott and Hort, and Tregelles.
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way by constraining her to remain unmarried, or by exposing her to the disgrace which was supposed to attach to the un- married state. But Paul, in his preceding words, has regarded the latter consideration as set aside by the peculiar circum- stances of the time.
His virgin (77 mapJévov aitod). Rev. properly inserts daughter. It is an unusual expression for daughter. Xenophon uses it with the word Juyadrnp daughter (“ Cyropaedia,” iv., 6, 9), and Oedipus speaks of his two daughters as my mazdens (Sophocles, “ Oedipus Tyrannus,” 1462).