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Two Epistles Concerning Virginity
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Introductory Notice to Two Epistles Concerning Virginity.
[369] Gen. vi. 3. [This is an example of the vicious method of interpretation, not yet extirpated, which carries Paul’s distinctive use of the term “flesh” back to the Pentateuch, where no ethical sense is necessarily implied.—R.]
[370] Rom. vii. 9. [The Apostle speaks of “the Spirit of Christ.”—R.]
Chapter IX.—Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of Persons Consecrated to God.
Chapter X.—Denunciation of Dangerous and Scandalous Association with Maidens.
[379] Or “life.”
[380] The words which follow, “concerning those things which we speak,” appear not to be genuine.—Beelen.
[381] Beelen supposes a ἓν διὰ δυοῖν: “along the lonely road.”
[382] i.e., virginity.
[384] Prov. xv. 19 (LXX.).
[385] Lit. “profit and righteousness.”
[386] Lit. “go about and wander.”
[388] Lit, “in their barefacedness.”
[389] 1 Cor. xii. 29. [But compare Jas. iii. 1: “Be not many teachers” (R.V.), which precedes the next citation.—R.]
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