Anf-03 vi.iv.xxii Pg 30
Gen. ii. 27 (or in the LXX. iii. 1), and iii. 7, 10, 11.
At all events, with regard to those in whom girlhood has changed (into maturity), their age ought to remember its duties as to nature, so also, to discipline; for they are being transferred to the rank of “women” both in their persons and in their functions. No one is a “virgin” from the time when she is capable of marriage; seeing that, in her, age has by that time been wedded to its own husband, that is, to time.8902 8902 Routh refers us to de Virg. Vel. c. 11.
“But some particular virgin has devoted herself to God. From that very moment she both changes the fashion of her hair, and converts all her garb into that of a ‘woman.’” Let her, then, maintain the character wholly, and perform the whole function of a “virgin:” what she conceals8903 8903 i.e. the redundance of her hair.
for the sake of God, let her cover quite over.8904 8904 i.e. by a veil.
It is our business to entrust to the knowledge of God alone that which the grace of God effects in us, lest we receive from man the reward we hope for from God.8905 8905 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.”
Why do you denude before God8906 8906 i.e. in church.
what you cover before men?8907 8907 i.e. in public; see note 27, supra.
Will you be more modest in public than in the church? If your self-devotion is a grace of God, and you have received it, “why do you boast,” saith he, “as if you have not received it?”8908 8908
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes xi.ii Pg 19.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (10) - Ge 2:25 Ex 3:6 Job 23:15 Ps 119:120 Isa 33:14; 57:11 1Jo 3:20
