Matthew 19:29
Luke has also added concerning a wife (Luke 18:29) — according to Paul, who commands to honor “elder women as mothers, younger as sisters in all purity.” (1 Timothy 5:2) Just as he gives brothers who are not brothers, parents who are not parents, and children who are not children, so also a wife who is not a wife, fulfilling the intimacies in another, clearly spiritual manner, not bodily. Leaving the race according to the flesh is good for the spiritual life; for he says to separate from parents and from a wife when they drag toward impiety. Just as one must despise soul and body for piety, so one must also prefer this to all things.
Greek
Προστέθεικε δὲ ὁ Λουκᾶς καὶ περὶ γυναικός· τοῦτο δὲ κατὰ τὸν Παῦλον κελεύοντα τιμᾶν "πρεσβυτέρας μὲν ὡς μητέρας, νεωτέρας δὲ ὡς ἀδελφὰς ἐν πάσῃ ἁγνείᾳ"· ὥσπερ οὖν ἀδελφοὺς δίδωσι τοὺς οὐκ ἀδελφοὺς καὶ γονεῖς τοὺς οὐ γονεῖς καὶ τέκνα τὰ οὐ τέκνα, οὕτω καὶ γυναῖκα τὴν οὐ γυναῖκα ἑτέρῳ τρόπῳ δηλαδὴ πνευματικῷ τὰς οἰκειότητας ἐκπληρῶν, οὐ σωματικῷ. ἀπολείπειν δὲ τὸ κατὰ σάρκα γένος ἀγαθόν ἐστι διὰ τὴν πνευματικὴν ζωήν· τότε γὰρ λέγει χωρίζεσθαι ἀπὸ γονέων καὶ ἀπὸ γυναικός, ὅταν πρὸς ἀσέβειαν ἕλκωσιν· καθὼς γὰρ δεῖ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος καταφρονεῖν διὰ θεοσέβειαν, οὕτω χρὴ καὶ πάντων ταύτην προτιμᾶν.