4. is, &c.--Translate, "Let marriage be treated as
honorable": as
Heb 13:5
also is an exhortation.
in all--"in the case of all men": "among all." "To avoid
fornication let EVERY MAN have his own wife"
(1Co 7:2).
Judaism and Gnosticism combined were soon about to throw discredit on
marriage. The venerable Paphnutius, in the Council of Nice, quoted this
verse for the justification of the married state. If one does not
himself marry, he should not prevent others from doing so. Others,
especially Romanists, translate, "in all things," as in
Heb 13:18.
But the warning being against lasciviousness, the contrast to
"whoremongers and adulterers" in the parallel clause,
requires the "in all" in this clause to refer to persons.
the bed undefiled--Translate, as Greek requires
"undefiled" to be a predicate, not an epithet, "And let the bed
be undefiled."
God will judge--Most whoremongers escape the notice of human
tribunals; but God takes particular cognizance of those whom man does
not punish. Gay immoralities will then be regarded in a very different
light from what they are now.
JFB.
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