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Virgins; by their father’s and their own voluntary determination, as 1Co_7:37; neither is it said whether they continued in that state, but they were so.
Which did prophesy; not by expounding the prophecies or word of God, for no woman is suffered to teach publicly, 1Co_14:34 1Ti_2:12; but rather foretelling things to come, which gift God did not debar that sex from; especially it having been promised, Joe_2:28, and in part fulfilled before, in Act_2:17; by which God would show the enlargement of his mercies, and plenty of his Spirit, reserved for the times of the gospel.