"_For marriage is honourable, and the bed undefiled_: why art thou
ashamed of the honourable; why blushest thou at the
undefiled?"--_Hom. XII._ (Colos. vi.) Oxf. Trans., vol. xiv. p.
330.
"_For marriage is honourable._"--_Hom. X._ (1 Tim. i.), Oxf.
Trans., vol. xii. p. 77.
"And this I say, not as accusing marriage; _for it is honourable_:
but those who have used it amiss."--_Hom. IX._ (2 Corin. iii.),
Oxf. T., vol. xxvii. p. 120.
"And the blessed Paul says, '_Marriage is honourable in all, and
the bed undefiled_;' but he has nowhere said, that the care of
riches is honourable, but the reverse."--_Hom. V._ (Tit. ii.),
Oxf. T., vol. xii. p. 313.
"Thus marriage is accounted an honourable thing both by us and by
those without; and _it is honourable_."--_Hom. XII._ (1 Cor. ii.),
Oxf. T., vol. iv. p. 160.