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I cannot
A newly married man had special indulgence allowed him. See Deu 24:5. Herodotus relates how Croesus refused for his son an invitation to a hunt on this ground. “But Croesus answered, 'Say no more of my son going with you; that may not be in anywise. He is but just joined in wedlock, and is busy enough with that'” (i., 36). The man who had the most plausible excuse returned the surliest and most peremptory answer. Compare 1Co 7:33.