Doubtless whatever the translators did was done "_advisedly_;" but what proof has CEPHAS that they adopted the present version _merely_ to serve their own "interest?" Some verb _must_ be supplied, and either form will suit the passage. It is true that Hammond prefers _let_ to _is_, but there is as great authority on the other side. 1. St. Chrysostom: "_For marriage is honourable, and the bed undefiled_: why art thou ashamed of the honourable; why blushest thou at the undefiled?"--_Hom. XII._ (Colos. vi.) Oxf. Trans., vol. xiv. p. 330. "_For marriage is honourable._"--_Hom. X._ (1 Tim. i.), Oxf. Trans., vol. xii. p. 77. "And this I say, not as accusing marriage; _for it is honourable_: but those who have used it amiss."--_Hom. IX._ (2 Corin. iii.), Oxf. T., vol. xxvii. p. 120. "And the blessed Paul says, '_Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled_;' but he has nowhere said, that the care of riches is honourable, but the reverse."--_Hom. V._ (Tit. ii.), Oxf. T., vol. xii. p. 313. "Thus marriage is accounted an honourable thing both by us and by those without; and _it is honourable_."--_Hom. XII._ (1 Cor. ii.), Oxf. T., vol. iv. p. 160. 2. St. Augustine: "Hear what God saith; not what thine own mind, in indulgence to thine own sins, may say, or what thy friend, thine enemy rather and his own too, bound in the same bond of iniquity with thee, may say. Hear then what the Apostle saith: '_Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge._'"--_Hom. on N.T._, Serm. xxxii. [82 B], Oxf. T., vol. xvi. p. 263. "'_Honourable, therefore, is marriage in all_, [he had just before been speaking of married persons] _and the bed undefiled._' And this we do not so call a good, as that it is a good in comparison of fornication," &c.--_Short Treat. de Bono Conjug._, Oxf. T., vol. xxii. p. 283. 3. St. Jerome, to whose authority perhaps CEPHAS will sooner bow on a version of Holy Scripture than to Hammond's: "Illi scriptum est: 'Honorabiles nuptiæ, et cubile immaculatum:' Tibi legitur, 'Fornicatores _autem_ et adulteros judicabit Deus.'"--69. _Epist. ad Ocean. Hier. Op._, vol. i. f. 325. Basileæ. Ed. Erasm. 1526.