Robert Leighton
Verses 5, 6.
5. For after this manner in the old time, the holy Women also who trusted in God adorned themselves. 6. Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord: whose Daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
THe Apostle inforces his Doctrine by Example. The most compendious way of teaching. Hence the right way to use the Scriptures is to regulate our manners by them, as by their precepts so by examples. And for this end it is that a great part of it is historical. There is not in the Saints a transmigration of Souls, but there is, so to speak, an oneness of Souls, being in all Ages partakers of the self same Spirit, hence the Daughters of Sarah are called pious and obedient Wives. Women here designed, 1. Holy. 2. Believing. 3. Firm and resolute, not afraid with any Amazement. tho’ by nature they are fearful, yet rendred of undaunted Spirits by a holy, clean, and pure conscience. Believing Wives, and fearers of God are not terrify’d, their Minds are established in a due obedience to God and also toward their Husbands.
