But  if  they  who  have  (wives)  are  (thus)
bound  to  ( onsign  to  oblivion  what  they  have,
how  much  more  are  they  who  have  fwt,  pro-
hibited from  seeking  a  second  time  what  they
no  longer  have  ;  so  that  she  whose  husband  has
departed  from  the  world  should  thencefor\vard
impose  rest  on  her  sex  by  abstinence  from  mar-

*  "  Parrici|Iiis."     So  Ochlcr  Jsecms.  tu  understand  it.
*  Luke  xxi.  23;   Mall.  xxiv.  19.
3  Sa;«.uli.
*  •*  LxpiasNc  "  —  a  rare  but  Ciceronian  use  of  the  word.    *
5  Luke  xvii.  a8,  29.
*  r>ei>oiat.
^  SacuH.
*  Szculi.  Comp.  I  Cor.  x.  it:  but  the  Greek  there  is,  tA  WAij
Tein»  auMvuiv,     By  the  **  blindness,"  Teriullian  may  refer  to  Gen.  xix.
XX.
9  Or,  "short"  (Eng.  ver.);  i  Cor.  vii.  29.  6  icatpbt  vvvtaraX-
ficKOf.  **  in  collecto."

*°  M.arimonia,"  neut.  pi  neain  for  the  fern.,  the  abstract  for  the
concrete.  See  c  ii.,  "  to  muhiply  wives,"  and  tl»e  note  there.  In  the
Greek  vi  Cor.  vii.  29)  it  is  Yvvatxac:  hut  the  ensuing  chapter  shows
that  Tertuiliau  refers  the  passage  to  women  as  weU.
