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[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.”
[8906] i.e. in church.
[8907] i.e. in public; see note 27, supra.
[8909] i.e. as Muratori, quoted by Oehler, says, your “pious” (?) fraud in pretending to be married when you are a virgin; because “devoted” virgins used to dress and wear veils like married women, as being regarded as “wedded to Christ.”
[8910] i.e. each president of a church, or bishop.
[8911] i.e. “are known to be such through the chastity of their manner and life” (Oehler).
[8912] “By appearing in public as married women, while in heart they are virgins” (Oehler).
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