Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither told he me his name:
Ver. 6. Then the woman came and told her husband.] Which because the first woman did not, but held a parley with the serpent, great mischief ensued. Married couples must freely impart their minds one to another in things of common concernment. Coniugis illa sui Cor, Caput iste suae. Josephus tells us that Manoah was jealous of his wife: but who told him so?
A man of God.] A prophet: it was indeed the Arch-prophet.
Very terrible.] Majestic, glorious, and sparkling with divine light.
But I asked him not whence he was.] Modesty and taciturnity do well become women. Video, taceo, I see and say nothing, was Queen Elizabeth's motto.