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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...you allege, the word ervah, here translated nakedness, is throughout Sacred Scripture invariably used to express illicit sexual intercourse, or, as in a wife's case it would be, adultery; and if in the above text we substitute the one word for the other (as, if you are right, we may properly do), we shall have a text which you may comprehend, but which, to my obtuser perceptions, becomes wholly unintelligible. 'I, in what your learning may set down as my simplicity, have always interpreted the text in question as referring to that offence which Shem and Japheth avoided, and for which Canaan (Genesis ix. 25) was cursed. The word uncleanness does, indeed, in another text (Numbers v. 19, ) mean adultery, but to give it that meaning, other defining words are expressly added. The priest, in that text, thus addresses the woman suspected of infidelity, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free, etc'. Even in this text, however, if we were to attempt to substitute adultery for uncleanness, we should not only have flagrant tautology, but a phrase that would seem to favor the idea that a wife might commit adultery with her husband as well as with other men; a thing, I must confess, I never before heard of. But independently of all this, the very words of the text seem to preclude your reading. Those words are: If it come to pass that she (the wife) find no favor in his eyes because of some uncleanness, etc. Now, a wife may be said to find no favor in a husband's eyes, if her person or her character become disagreeable to him; but who would ever select such a phrase for a...

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