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

191

See however below, p. 225 (#chap0205fn21text).

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.