Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 22. Good wife. Good is not in Hebrew but should be understood, as it is expressed in Septuagint of Complut. ( Calmet.) and Alex. Bible.—He that, and so forth occurs not in Hebrew Sixtus V. and so forth But it is found in Septuagint and Arabic. The Syriac omits the last sentence.—Wicked. Saint Augustine had frequently asserted that a divorce was only of counsel: but this he retracted, when he reflected on this text. Ret. i. 19.—The Hebrews, Athenians, and Romans, followed the same practice with adulteresses. Selden, Ux. iii. 16. Dem. in Neæram, and so forth—Hermas (past. i. 4.) prescribes that the penitent shall be received again, but not often. In cae of divorce, the fathers still permit not a second marriage, that the parties may be reconciled. They enjoin the husband to put away only such as are incorrigible. Saint Augustine Adul. ii. 3. Calmet.