13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
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But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-16)It is here taken for granted that all such persons as are sui juris—at their own disposal , and are likewise of sound understanding and memory, are bound to perform whatever they vow that is lawful and possible; but, if the person vowing be under the dominion and at the disposal of another, the case is different. Two cases much alike are here put and determined:— I. The case of a daughter in her f…
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