Verse 7.— Likewise, ye husbands. Peter now turns to Christian husbands, and their duties receive attention. Christian husband are not to separate from their wives because they are not converted to Christ. Very true it may be that the relation of husband and wife is the more strongly cemented where both are followers of Christ, yet where this is not the case no cause for separation exists; but they must be dwelt with according to knowledge. As though the apostle said to the Christian husband, your superior knowledge acquired through your belief as to the duties growing out of these domestic ties should cause you to make your home pleasant, for both you and your wife are designed by the heavenly Father to share alike the good of this earthly life, and to both alike are offered the grace of eternal life. While the wife may be in nature and constitu­tion the weaker vessel, she is entitled to this respect, and, while so acting, your prayers for her conversion will meet with no hindrance.