His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
Ver. 10. If the case of a man be so with his wife] viz. That he may not rid his hands of her when he will; better be married to a quartan ague than to a bad wife, said Simonides.
It is not good to marry] It is not evil to marry, but good to be wary; to look ere one leap. Alioqui saliens antequam videat, casurus est antequam debeat, as Bernard hath it. Most men, as these disciples, look not to the commodities but discommodities of wedlock, and other things, and are discontented. But as there be two kinds of antidotes against poison, viz. hot and cold; so against the troubles of life, whether single or married, viz. prayer and patience, the one hot, the other cold, the one quenching, the other quickening.