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Pro_31:25 Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Ver. 25. Strength and honour are her clothing.] See Pro_31:22. She is not of those, quae fulgent monilibus, sordent moribus, that are well habited but ill mannered. No; she is inwardly decked with spiritual attire, such as rendereth her glorious in the eyes of God and angels. "The joy of the Lord is her strength," so that she laugheth at the time to come. This "daughter of Sarah, so long as she doth well," and hath the euge a good conscience, "is not afraid with any amazement," as women are apt to be. {1Pe_3:6} Gaudebat Crispina cum tenebatur, cure audiebatur, cum damnabatur, cam dacebutur. {a} So did Mistress Anne Askew, Alice Driver, and many other gracious women that suffered for the truth in Queen Mary’s days. Strength and honour were their clothing, and they rejoiced at the time to come: they went as merry to die as to dine, and cheered up one another with this, that although they had but a bitter breakfast, yet they should sup with Christ in joy.
{a} Aug. in Ps. cxxxvii.