Isagoge ad lectionem epistolarum divi Pauli apostoli, qua compositionis oeconomia, et germana dispositio indicatur. Opusculum recens. Benedicto Aretio authore.

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for him it means "woman," not "wife." Epiphanius is of the same opinion; his reason is that the Apostle encourages celibacy by his own example. Nicephorus, in the second book, chapter 44, testifies that this pleased many doctors, and he says that σύζυγον yoke-fellow/partner can be understood as the name of a man whom he greets. But the opinion of Clement of Alexandria pleases many others, who in the third book of his Stromátôn Miscellanies testifies that Paul was married, and interprets the passage in Philippians 4, "I ask you, σύζυγε γνήσιε genuine companion," as referring to his wife. And while it does not escape me that σύζυγον can also signify a partner in counsel, a comrade-in-arms, and the like, it must nonetheless be conceded that this word can also signify a wife. Eusebius is of this opinion in his Ecclesiastical His-