To His Wife — Book 2, Chapter 6

1

Comp. Luke i. 38, and de Cult. Fem., b. ii. c. i. ad init.

2

Nominibus; al. honoribus.

3

Sanctis—iniquis. Comp. St. Paul’s antithesis of ἀδίκων and ἁγίων in 1 Cor. vi. 1.

4

See 1 Cor. vi. 2, 3.

5

See Eph. v. 19.

6

So Oehler understands (apparently) the meaning to be. The translator is inclined to think that, adopting Oehler’s reading, we may perhaps take the “Dei” with “aliquid,” and the “cœnans” absolutely, and render, “From the tavern, no doubt, while supping, she will hear some (strain) of God,” in allusion to the former sentence, and to such passages as Ps. cxxxvii. 4 (in the LXX. it is cxxxvi. 4).

Book 2 · Chapter 6

Chapter VI.—Danger of Having to Take Part in Heathenish Rites, and Revels.

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