| Proverbs 18:22
| He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord.
| Good wife. Good is not in Hebrew, but should be understood, as it is expressed in the Complutensian (Calmet) and Alexandrian Septuagint. (Haydock) --- He that, etc., occurs not in Hebrew, Sixtus V, etc. But it is found in Septuagint and Arabic. The Syriac omits the last sentence. --- Wicked. St. Augustine had frequently asserted that a divorce was only of counsel: but this he retracted, when he reflected on this text. (Retractions 1:19.) --- The Hebrews, Athenians, and Romans, followed the same practice with adulteresses. (Selden, Ux. 3:16.; Dem. in Neaeram, etc.) --- Hermas (past. 1:4.) prescribes that the penitent shall be received again, but not often. In case of divorce, the fathers still permit not a second marriage, that the parties may be reconciled. They enjoin the husband to put away only such as are incorrigible. (St. Augustine, Adul. 2:3.) (Calmet)
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