St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition

178

Prophecies of Isaiah, vol. ii, p. 188.

179

1 Cor. vi. 17.

180

This, it is well known, was read in the Old Version. It has vanished (in submission to the verdict of the best MSS.) from the R. V. But there seems to me to be some force in Alford's plea for the originality of the words, as they stand in 'Western' and later texts.

181

Acts xx. 28.

182

'Washing.' Marg. 'laver.'

183

John i. 29.

184

John xvii. 9; Tit. ii. 14.

185

Rom. x. 9; cp. Acts xxii. 16.

186

In Joan, tract. 80. Cf. Irenaeus c. haer. v. 2, 3.

187

See St. Thom. Aq., Summa, Pars iii. Qu. lxx. art. 6 ad 3.

188

1 Pet. iii. 7.

189

It is noticeable that St. Paul does not (according to the Revised Version which represents the original) exactly enjoin obedience upon wives (as upon children and slaves) but subjection: cf. Col. iii. 18; 1 Cor. xiv. 34; 1 Tim. ii. 11, 12; 1 Pet. iii. 1. If however in the use of the 'obey' in the vow of the wife our marriage service goes an almost imperceptible stage beyond St. Paul, its general tone preserves St. Paul's balance admirably. The husband 'worships' the wife and endows her with all his worldly goods. The only other ecclesiastical formula of ours in which the word worship is used of a purely human relation, is the peer's oath of allegiance to the sovereign at the coronation, 'I do become your liegeman of life and limb and of earthly worship: and faith and troth I will bear unto you to live and to die against all manner of folks.'

190

How many husbands are capable of 'teaching their wives at home' about religion? see 1 Cor. xiv. 35.

191

See however below, p. 225.

192

1 Tim. ii. 12; 1 Cor. xiv. 34, 35.

193

1 Tim. ii. 8, 9.

194

1 Tim. ii. 11, 12; cf. 1 Pet. iii. 4.

195

All this has been admirably stated by George Romanes, whom no one could accuse of misogyny, in his essay on 'the mental differences between men and women.' See Essays (Longmans, 1897), pp. 113 ff. And the statements of the text are supported by Mr. Havelock Ellis' Man and Woman (Contemp. Science Series). Mr. Ellis is sometimes less decisive than Mr. Romanes. But see capp. xiii, xiv.

196

Tennyson's Princess; cp. his Memoir by Hallam Tennyson, (Macmillan, 1897), i. 249.

197

Prov. xxxi. 10 ff.

198

1 Cor. xi. 5.

199

Lambeth Conference, 1897. Report on Religious Communities, pp. 57 ff.

200

See Paris, Quatenus foeminae res publicas in Asia Minore Romanis inperantibus attigerint (Paris, 1891).

201

Ramsay, Paul the Traveller, p. 268.

202

Mark x. 19; cf. Matt xix. 18, 19; Luke xviii. 20.

203

Cited from Exod. xx. 12 according to the LXX, which assimilates the passage to Deut. v. 16.

204

Col. iii. 21. In 2 Cor. ix. 2, the only other place where the word is used by St. Paul or in the New Testament, it means to stimulate by emulation.

205

Accompanied with circumcision and sacrifice.

206

See Dr. Taylor, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, pp. 55-58, and Sabatier, La Didachè, pp. 84-88, both very suggestive passages. Cf. Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus, App. xii, and Schürer, Jewish People, Div. ii. vol. ii. pp. 319 ff.

207

1 Cor. vii. 21, 23.

208

Philem. 16.

209

1 Tim. vi. 1.

210

Col. i. 16.

211

Acts xiii. 6-12; xvi. 16-18; xix. 13-20.

212

This is akin to St. Paul's word in the Greek, iv. 14; vi. 11.

213

Rom. xiii. 12.

214

Rom. vi. 13; xiii. 12; 2 Cor. vi. 7; x. 4; 1 Thess. v. 8. Cf. Isa. xi. 4, 5, and Wisd. v. 19.

215

Luke xi. 21, 22.

216

By the use of the articles. Contrast Is. lix. 17 which he is quoting.

217

Isa. lix. 17.

218

'Salvation' is sometimes viewed as already accomplished, i.e. in the victory of Christ: sometimes as still to be realized at 'the redemption of our bodies': so in 1 Thess. v. 8 the helmet is 'the hope of salvation' yet to be attained.

219

Rom. viii. 26; 1 Cor. ii. 11.

220

Eph. i. 15 ff.; iii. 14 ff.

221

Acts xx. 4.

222

2 Tim. iv. 12.

223

Eph. iv. 22

224

Cor. xv. 52.

225

1 Pet. iii. 4.

226

The Apoc. of Baruch (A. and C. Black, 1896), p. lxxxii. The statement is compiled from Weber, Lehre des Talmuds.

227

Edited also by R. H. Charles (A. and C. Black, 1897), p. 37.

228

Not, as Dr. Hort points out (Christian Ecclesia, p. 5), 'the elect (called-out) people.' The word has in fact no such association attached to it.

229

pp. 10, 11.

230

Unless indeed, in Eph. iii. 21, we should understand 'every building' as meaning every local church which, fitted together with every other, grows into a holy temple, i.e. into that which only a really catholic church can be.

231

The same statement would be true of St. Ignatius of Antioch.

232

1 Cor. vii. 17.

233

1 Cor. xi. 2, xv. 2.

234

1 Cor. ix. 17.

235

2 Cor. x. 8.

236

1 Cor. iv, 21.

237

1 Cor. xiv. 36; Gal. i. 8.

238

S. Aug. de Baptismo, ii. [xiii.] 18, [xiv.] 20.