Chapter 22

Notes

1. 1

   As to the distinction between “women” and “virgins.”

2. 2

   Gen. ii. 23. In the LXX. and in the Eng. ver. there is but the one word “woman.”

3. 3

   These words are regarded by Dr. Routh as spurious, and not without reason. Mr. Dodgson likewise omits them, and refers to de Virg. Vel. cc. 4 and 5.

4. 4

   In de Virg. Vel. 5, Tertullian speaks even more strongly: “And so you have the name, I say not now common, but proper to a virgin; a name which from the beginning a virgin received.”

5. 5

   1 Cor. vii. 34 et seq.

6. 6

   γυνή.

7. 7

   Mr. Dodgson appears to think that there is some transposition here; and at first sight it may appear so. But when we look more closely, perhaps there is no need to make any difficulty: the stress is rather on the words “by interpretation,” which, of course, is a different thing from “usage;” and by interpretation γυνή appears to come nearer to “femina” than to “mulier.”

8. 8

   θηλεῖα.

9. 9

   Or, “unveiled.”

10. 10

    1 Cor. xi. 5.

11. 11

    1 Cor. xi. 4.

12. 12

    For a similar use of the word “virgin,” see Rev. xiv. 4.

13. 13

    1 Cor. xi. 10.

14. 14

    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.

15. 15

    i.e. according to their definition, whom Tertullian is refuting.

16. 16

    Gen. iv. 2.

17. 17

    i.e. If married women had been meant, either word, “uxores” or “feminæ,” could have been used indifferently.

18. 18

    Gen. vi. 2.

19. 19

    1 Cor. xi. 14.

20. 20

    i.e. long hair.

21. 21

    i.e. veiling.

22. 22

    i.e. “exempts.”

23. 23

    i.e. from her creation.

24. 24

    Of the “universal veiling of women.”

25. 25

    i.e. as above, the Sermon on the Mount.

26. 26

    i.e. mere infancy.

27. 27

    Gen. iii. 6.

28. 28

    Gen. ii. 27 (or in the LXX. iii. 1), and iii. 7, 10, 11.

29. 29

    Routh refers us to de Virg. Vel. c. 11.

30. 30

    i.e. the redundance of her hair.

31. 31

    i.e. by a veil.

32. 32

    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.”

33. 33

    i.e. in church.

34. 34

    i.e. in public; see note 27, supra.

35. 35

    1 Cor. iv. 7.

36. 36

    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.”

37. 37

    i.e. each president of a church, or bishop.

38. 38

    i.e. “are known to be such through the chastity of their manner and life” (Oehler).

39. 39

    “By appearing in public as married women, while in heart they are virgins” (Oehler).

40. 40

    Does Tertullian refer to 2 Cor. x. 13? or does “modulus” mean, as Oehler thinks, “my rule?” [It seems to me a very plain reference to the text before mentioned, and to the Apostolic Canon of not exceeding one’s Mission.]

41. 41

    Gen. xxiv. 64, 65.