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How are we to understand that speech, It is not good for man to be alone? God crea∣ed man alone, and Moses saith that all that God made, was very good.
We may answer it thus, non bonum, is not in [Resp. 1] this place as much as malum. The meaning is not, It is not good for man to be alone,
viz. it is evil, dishonest, or sinful for man to be alone; but it is not good, viz. 'tis not ex∣pedient; bonum est honestum, utile, jucundum.
We may answer it thus, and advance further: solitude was not onely good for [ 2] man, when he was first created, but also expedient, so long as it pleased God he should be in such a condition; although it was not expedient he should continue in it, because of the propagation of mankind, and of the Church of God which God had determined from eternity, for the advance∣ment of his own glory.