Verse 2
2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Ver. 2. Whiles they behold ] Curiously pry into. Carnal men watch the carriages of prolessors, and spend many thoughts about them.
Your chaste conversation ] When Livia the empress was asked how had she got such a power over her husband that she could do anything with him? She answered, Multa modestia, By my much modesty. (Dio in Aug.) A prudent wife commands her husband by obeying.
Coupled with fear ] Not slavish fear of blows, but reverent fear: 1. Of offending God, by using unlawful means to get their husband’s love, as by plaiting of the hair, &e. 2. Of offending their husbands by immodesty or frowardness.
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