Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Ver. 12. Turn again, my daughters.] A probational persuasion, as Ruth 1:8, that she might sound them to the bottom.
For I am too old to have an husband.] Second marriages are not unlawful: but thought of death is enough to forbid the bans of such marriage. Cogita te quotidie moriturum et nunquam de secundis nuptiis cogitabis, saith Jerome.
If I should have an husband also tonight, and should also bear sons.] Without having a husband, she doth not once think of having children, as many wantons and light-skirts do; making themselves whores, and their children bastards, and all for satisfying the rage of present lust, though after they repent with grief and shame. a
a Bernard.