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For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

καὶ πέντε ἔχειν ὑμᾶς γυναῖκας ἕκαστον συγχωροῦσι: Joseph. Ant. xvii. 1. 2, πάτριον γὰρ πλείοσιν ἡμῖν συνοικεῖν: cf. Schürer, i. 1, p. 455 note. Schechter, Documents of Jewish Sectaries, i. 17. (iii) It also certainly implies “a faithful husband,” married to one woman and loyal to her, having no mistress or concubine; cf. Tertull. Apol. 46, “Christianus uxori soli suæ masculus nascitur.” Canones Apost. xvii. ὁ δυσὶ γάμοις συμπλακεὶς μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα ἢ παλλακὴν κτησάμενος
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