This was a mere inference from the high power of the bond of the husband.

The father had right of death over his son, and (as the lawyers stated the case), the wife was on the level of one of the children.] [Footnote 13: 1 Cor.vii.

2-9] [Footnote 14: Namely, in the Armenian, Syrian, and Greek churches, and in the Romish church in exact proportion as Germanic and poetical influences have been repressed; that is, in proportion as the hereditary Christian doctrine has been kept pure from modern innovations.] [Footnote 15: In a tract republished from the _Northampton Mercury_ Longman, 1853.] [Footnote 16: The Romans practised fornication at pleasure, and held it ridiculous to blame them.

If Paul had claimed authority to hinder them, they might have been greatly exasperated; but they had not the least objection to his denouncing fornication as immoral to Christians.

Why not slavery also ?] [Footnote 17: I fear it cannot be denied that the zeal for Christianity which began to arise in our upper classes sixty years ago, was largely prompted by a feeling that its precepts repress all speculations concerning the rights of man.