Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ver. 2. To avoid fornication] Gr. πορνειας, fornications, comprehending all lustful burnings, self-pollutions, and all other impurities of a single life. How many are there that enter into God's ordinance (marriage) through the devil's portal (fornication), that take such liberty before, that after marriage they rue it all the days of their lives.
Let every man have his own wife] Not many wives. Turks may have as many as they can keep. And some sensualists plead now for polygamy. SeeMalachi 2:15. Scotorum natio uxores proprias non habet, saith Jerome of the old Scots. And too many among us are sick of a pleurisy. a
a Inflammation of the pleura, with or without effusion of fluid (serum, pus, blood, etc.) into the pleural cavity; a disease characterized by pain in the chest or side, with fever, loss of appetite, etc.; usually caused by chill, or occurring as a complication of other diseases (scarlatina, rheumatic fever, phthisis, etc.). ŒD