which follow. The difference , namely between marriage and celibacy, each of which claims for itself a different class of duties, rather refers to women than to men ; for the woman is the helper of the man ; — the woman undergoes a greater change of her condition, than the man, in contracting marriage ; comp, ver. 39, 40. Further, he is speaking here chiefly of virgins, ver. 25 : therefore the word /j,e/u,epiffrui is particularly well adapted to this place ; and the singular number does not prevent it from being construed with wife and virgin. So 2 Kings x. 5, in the Hebrew, He that was over the house , and he that was over the city , the elders also and the bring ers up of the children sent” [singular verb] (Heb. rfcv), so below, ix. 6, v MON02 syu xai Bupvd(3ag, x.r.X., 66 or I only [instead of ^oi/o/] and Barnabas.” — ha ay/a, that she may be holy) She thus pleases the Lord, if she be holy, being wholly devoted to him. Holiness here im- plies something more than at ver. 14.
35. Abruv, your own. — Bpoyov, a snare ) A snare , the fear of committing sin, where there is no sin, or even forced service. Men are unwillingly drawn into a snare, Prov. vii. 21, lxx. That is readily considered as a snare, which is most conducive to profit \_<sviJb<pzpov\. — rocyjiiaov) an antithesis to dayyifioveTv, in the following verse. — eb^dpzdpov) akin to this is the verb < Trpoasdpsvziv , in ix. 13. An example is found in Luke x. 39. — rti Kopiy, to the Lord) sbtfdpbdpov, as well as ^rapsdpebca, governs the dative. — uKspiffKucrMc) This explains the word sbvdpedpov, for assiduous attendance upon the Lord, and distraction , are the reverse of each other. Sitting [involved in the ebwapzdpov] assists the devout mind. Comp. Luke x. 39, 40. Paul says something similar of the widow, 1 Tim. v. 5.
36. Tig, any man) a parent. — acyri/aoveh) viz. eaurbv. — rijv craptievov abrou) a virgin , his daughter. — vofiifyr, thinks) Antithesis to, I think (suppose), ver. 26. — suv jj vnepux/jbog) if she pass, dx^v, the flower, of her age without marriage, as it were despised by suitors. — h(pu\u, it so ought to be [need so require, Engl. V.] [because he cannot see how better to consult the advantage of his daughter. — V. g.], having no necessity, in the following verse is the antithesis. — oby u^aprum, he sinneth not) The matter is sweetly expressed by short clauses.
37. "Earnxzv, he who standeth stedfast) There is in this passage