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[8885] For a similar use of the word “virgin,” see Rev. xiv. 4.
[8887] See Gen. vi. 2 in the LXX., with the v. l. ed. Tisch. 1860; and compare Tertullian, de Idol. c. 9, and the note there. Mr. Dodgson refers, too, to de Virg. Vel. c. 7, where this curious subject is more fully entered into.
[8888] i.e. according to their definition, whom Tertullian is refuting.
[8890] i.e. If married women had been meant, either word, “uxores” or “feminæ,” could have been used indifferently.
[8893] i.e. long hair.
[8894] i.e. veiling.
[8895] i.e. “exempts.”
[8896] i.e. from her creation.
[8897] Of the “universal veiling of women.”
[8898] i.e. as above, the Sermon on the Mount.
[8899] i.e. mere infancy.
[8902] Routh refers us to de Virg. Vel. c. 11.
[8903] i.e. the redundance of her hair.
[8904] i.e. by a veil.
[8905] i.e. says Oehler, “lest we postpone the eternal favour of God, which we hope for, to the temporal veneration of men; a risk which those virgins seemed likely to run who, when devoted to God, used to go veiled in public, but bareheaded in the church.”
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