worthily to use the good which it confers : comp. 1 Thess. iv. 4. — ya/Aos) marriage. — iv vaci) in all. There is obviously greater dan ger of fornication than of adultery ; comp. 1 Cor. vii. 2, sxaarog, every one [" To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife"] ; and all ought to value marriage highly, so that if a man does not enter into that state himself, he should not prevent others from doing so, 1 Tim. iv. 3. — n XO/YJJ) the bed, the couch, the state and use of marriage. Marriage — the bed — whoremongers — adulterers: a Chiasmus. — apiavrog, undefiled) Supply again, let — be. An antithesis to adulterers. — xpive? 6 Qsbg, GOD will judge) By far the greatest number of whoremongers and adulterers escape the notice of human tribunals. As such intrigues are not made known in the way in which they formerly were, Num. v. 20, 21, a great number, although their conduct is well known, yet escape civil punishment and ecclesiastical discipline, or are made to feel it very slightly. [Sometimes, indeed, judges themselves are whoremongers and adulterers, men that are placed in the highest ecclesiastical and political offices : and therefore they know how to take measures for their own impunity ; but they also take measures for the impunity of others like themselves, when the case admits of it (or when a case occurs). Very many acts of this sort remain entirely concealed in the world, or are extenuated by various devices, or are upheld by violence. — V. g.] God will judge : [A thing dreadful to be spoken ! ch. x. 30, 31. — V. g.] — He most of all punishes them, whom man does not punish. Comp. 2 Sam. iii. 39. The apostle speaks of the judgment as near. [At that greatest of all days, what deeds, I pray you, will be brought to light ! Then indeed execrable crimes will no longer be reckoned as a mark of polished manners. — V. g.]
5. 'O rpovrog) daily life. — apxovpsvoi) The participle for the im perative : just as the ellipsis (ver. 4), for the sake of politeness, of the verb, let — be, so there is a similar ellipsis of the verb, be ye (in this verse). — roTg irapovtiv, with present things) the present state. So Paul, speaking of himself, Phil. iv. 11. — avrbc) He. — s"pv)xsv, has said) What was said to Jacob, to Joshua and the people, and to Solomon, extends also to us. — ou w ffs dvZ> ovtf ou M as lyxaraX/Vw) / will never leave thee nor forsake thee, Gen. xxviii. 15 ; the LXX. omit the first clause, and have only, I will not forsake thee ; Deut. xxxi. 6, He will not fail (leave) thee