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la quantité et qualité des choses et as autres circonstances,
elle se dolt conformer a la volenté de son man. Et en cc
elle fait le plaisir de Dieu, Si comme it appert par le texte;
car adonques les manages estoient fais es temples par la
gent sacerdotal, qui conimandoient de par Dieu a Ia femme
ceste obediance. Et de cc que it dit et par fortune, l'en doit
savoir que nature encline it et it est acompli par
consentement de volenté; mes que cestui ait ceste, cc est en
partie et conimunelment a fortune.
T. lit se cue seuffre et porte pacientnent et humblement,
elle gouvernera legierement la maison et se non,
elle avra plus fort a faire,
G. Car se ainsi est qe Ic man vielle une chose et die
vielie l'autre, it seront a descort. Apres it met WI autre
enseignciuent.
T. lit pour cc est cc chose avenante et appartenante
qu'elle soit d'un corage ovelues son inari et se acorde
a lui et le serve jouxte son vouloir, non pas seuleinent
quant it eschiet qu'il vient a prosperité des choses et a
autre glore.
G. Par prosperifé ii entent richeces et par autre giore
it entent honeur.
T. Ales meisme en aversité.
G. Api'es it met la nianicre.
7'. Cc est assavoir, se it avenoit que it eust deffaute
de aucunes des choses dehors, qu'elle lui secourist on a
la maladie de son corps // (340c) OU a manileste ignorance
de l'ame.
G. Elle lui doit aidier en .iii. adversités ou infortunes
cc est assavoir, des biens dehors, des hiens du corps, des
biens de l'ame.
T. lit qu'elle die tousj ours tres bonnes paroles et liii
face service et obedience en choses avenantes et appartenantes
fors qu'elle ne face quelconque chose laide
on villaine ou qui ne soit digne ou appartenante a elle.
Et se it a pechey en aucune chose vers elle par passion
on mouvement (IC I'aine, die tie doit avoir memore de cc
r.e soy complaitidre de rien aussi comme se it eust cc
fait, mes doit mettre et tenir toutes ces choses estre
faictes par cause de maladie et de ignorance et des
pechies accidens.
C. Par ces pechies it entent les douleurs, les courous et
les perturbations des infortunes et des pertes des choses dehors;
mcs en la maniere ici dicte, nc firent pas Ic femme de
Job ne 1)luSeurS autres et lie suiit pas souvent trouvecs
fenimes si vertucuses. Et pour cc dit Ic Sage: Mulierem
tortem quis inveniet procul et de ultimis linibus preciuni
ejus. Apres it prove cc que dit est par iii, raisons.
7'. Car de tant comme aucun 1 obeira et servira plus
diligeaument a un autre en ses adversités, tant 2 avra it
et trouvera plus grande grace vers celui qui gueri,
quant il sera delivré de sa inaladie.
C. lit donques la femme, se die fait comme cut est, cue
sera grandement en Ia grace et en l'aniuur de son man.
Apres it met a ce Ia seconde raison prise du contraire.
place and the amount and kind of such things and with
respect to other accidental circumstances she must conform
to her husband's will. In so doing, she fulfills the
divine pleasure, as the text indicates. For at that time
marriages were performed in the temples by the priests,
who commanded this obedience from the wife in the name
of the Deity. And the expression and by fortune means
that natural instinct inclines us to marriage and it is
embarked upon by consent of the will; but the choice of a
certain woman by a certain mail is commonly, at least in
part, a matter of chance,
T. If she endures and bears her lot patiently and
humbly, she will manage her household easily; otherwise,
she will find it more difficult.
G. Because if it happens that the husband wants one
thing and she wants another, there will be discord. Next
he sets forth another precept.
T. Thus it is fitting and proper that she should be
of the same mind as her husband and agree with him
and serve him as he desires not only when he happens
to be enjoying material prosperity and good repute.
G. By prosperity he means wealth and by god repute
he means worldly honors.
T. But especially in time of adversity.
C. He now explains what manner of adversity.
T. That is, should it happen that he needed material
assistance in some way, she should help him whether
in bodily illness // (340c) or when he is the victim of
his own faulty judgment.
C. She should help him in three kinds of adversity: (1)
those arising from a lack of worldly goods; (2) from
bodily illness; and (3) from faulty judgment.
T. She must always speak kindly and be obedient
and helpful in all good and proper things, though she
should not do any base or ugly action shameful or unworthy
of herself. And if he has wronged her in any
way from anger or distress of mind, she must not remember
this or complain in any way that lie acted thus;
rather she must attribute his actions to his sickness and
ignorance and to accidental errors.
C. By accidental errors lie means the sorrows, the anger
and distress caused by misfortune and loss of material
goods. However, neither Job's wife nor many others haveacted
in this manner and such virtuous wives are not often.
found. Thus Solomon says: "Who can find a virtuous
woman? For her price is far above rubies" [Prov. 31: 101.
Next he proves his statement by three arguments.
T. For in proportion as one obeys and serves another
diligently in his adversity, so much the greater will be
his gratitude when lie is cured and delivered from his
sickness.
C. So that the wife, if she acts as just indicated above,
will enjoy her husband's gratitude and love. Next he adds
the second argument, taken front opposite point of
view. /