Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

Moderns take tbe term to mean body, and to Imply that if he entered single, ho should not at his departure take with him his wife, whom he married during his bondage, lie could not claim her free- dom. 8t Jerome appears to iise the phrase proverbially, to signify that as be came In he should go forth.

He was required to provide a husband for her in ease he were unwilling to retain her.