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ver. 10. — (fwsvdoKt?, she be pleased) There might be many, who either doubted or were not averse from the faith. — M?} ap/sr«, let him not put away) This rule was stricter in the Old Testa- ment. That the difference between the Old and New Testa- ment is here regarded, we gather from ver. 18, 15, note.
13. Tvvri, the woman) a sister .
14. 'Hyiaffrou) has been sanctified , so that the believing party may hold intercourse with the other in the exercise of holiness, and ought not to put him or her away : comp. 1 Tim. iv. 5. A very significant word is here used, because Scripture wishes to guarantee to us conscience being left everywhere unen- cumbered.— -iv rjj yvvouxt) [by the wife ] in respect to the wife , with whom he willingly remains ; so iv, xiv. 11. — nufrn, the believing , is not added to yvvaixi, in accommodation to human modes of thought [xar avdpwtfov] : for an unbelieving husband does not know what faith is. — Wzi a pa, otherwise) For [otherwise] the children would follow the condition of the unbelieving parent. The marriage is Christian, and so also are the offspring. — rexva. children) who are born of a believing and an unbelieving parent. — dxdda pray unclean ) as those who are born of parents, who are both unbelievers, although they be not bastards. — ay/a etnv, they are holy) jjy/aora/ differs from this expression as, to become holy , from to be holy ; but the holiness itself of the children and of the unbelieving parent is the same. He is speaking of a purity, which not only makes the children legitimate, not bastards, such as those also have, who are born from the marriage of two unbelievers ; but which also imports a degree of nearer relation- ship with the Church, and a more open door to faith itself, just as if both parents were Christians. Comp. Rom. xi. 16. Timothy is an example, Acts xvi. 1, who was the bearer of this epistle, and there might have been many such among the children at Corinth. [A husband is in other respects preferred ; but the faith of the wife has more influence than the unbelief of the husband. —
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15. *0) ri i] annsrog. — %Mp/% s<r0w, let — be separated) Let him be divorced. A brother or a sister should be patient, and not think that that ought to be changed, which he or she cannot change. [The believing party is not bound to renounce the faith for the sake of the unbelieving party. — V. g.] — ou SsSovXcor a/, is
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