concerning it, the reader should know that it is not usual in Scripture, nor the common custom of the world, to call the family by the woman’s name, as long as the husband is living. Since then, Luke mentions the family by the name of the woman, reason teaches us, that Lydia was at that time either a widow or a virgin. Of the probability as to whether there were infants in her house or not, we shall let the pious reader judge. In the fourth place, we answer: The word household, or houses, does not