—with or without a wife. He almost certainly had been married. Jews rarely remained celibate, and parenthood was a qualification required of candidates for the Sanhedrin. Yet Paul’s wife is never mentioned in his writings. He may have suffered bereavement, losing not only his wife but an only child, for in later years, though he seemed impatient with women as a sex, he displayed gentleness toward individuals and an understanding of marriage, which belie his being a misogamist or misogynist; and he