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which it is evident, that the figure Ploce [the same word twice, once simply, next expressing an attribute. Append.] occurs in the three preceding clauses ; for as the Apostle Paul exhorts the teacher to teach , and every one employed in doing good to be active in doing it, Pom. xii. 7 ; so they , that rejoice , rejoice in the world , which same is the very thing that he forbids.
31. 0/ they that use ) Paul seems to have used this
expression for, and they that sell , because according to the gene- ral practice of the world, selling in itself is most suitable to travellers. We must use, not enjoy. — ug /urj xara-fcpupwoi) as notabusing. The compound verb both in Greek and Latin denotes not only the perversion of the use, but also [‘ abundan- tiam,’ the abundant use ] an over-much using. — wapayti, passeth away , every moment, not merely shall pass away. — ro tyrgiu roD xoV/aou rovrov, the fashion of this world) the world itself and the fashion of it, which is to marry, to weep, to rejoice, to buy, etc., Heb. ub'H, Ps. xxxix. 7, lxxiii. 20. While a man, for example, is advancing from the twentieth to the fortieth year of his age, he has almost lost all his former relations and acquires new con- nexions.
32. *A/xs pipvovg, without carefulness) not only without affliction, ver. 28, but also without any care distracting the mind. — o aya/xoc, lie that is unmarried) namely if he wishes to use wisely the condition in which he is placed. — rov nvpiou, of the Lord) Christ. a-pzGzij may please) by holiness of body and spirit.
33. Uug apian) how he may please. The word please is repeated from the preceding verse} and comprehends here all the duties of a husband, which the wife may demand in everthing relating to the married state.
34. Mtfjjfpusrcu xai i] yvvYi zal i] ^rap6evog ) That is, there is a differ- ence also between a wife and a virgin. Not only the unmarried and the married man have duties differing from each other ; but also the duties of the wife, and virgin (of the female sex) differ as far as possible from each other. Some connect the word / Lzpepnsrou, having the particle xa/ also before it,1 by a different pointing, with the foregoing words, but Paul refers it to those
1 Laclim. reads kocI ^i^ipiarou koci with AB Vulg., and punctuates thus, yweiiKi, Kocl pet pd pun at. koci v} yvvvi , etc., G fg read (ttpitpiaToci koc,i. Tischend. reads as Lachm., but puts the full stop at yvvoiixt. — Ed.
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