If the author did not mean to speak of being pious to God as well as faithful to Him, he has written incorrectly: a comma after pious, would alter both the sense and the construction.
Chambers inserts a comma after 'we saw not', perhaps rightly; but the punctuation of the old editions gives a distinct enough sense, viz.
I have introduced a comma after 'this' to show what, I think, must be the relation of the words.
In my own version the only departure which I have made from the punctuation of the 1633 version is the substitution of a semicolon for a comma after 'lye' (l.
I have placed a comma after I to make quite clear that 'live' is the adjective, not the verb.
The comma before "or" is clearly required; but why put a comma after "easier"?
It requires a comma before it to cut it off from "or," and a comma after it to cut it off from what follows.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comma after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
