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... Others conceive that he will be purely man, with a father and mother, but conceived in adultery, and incest, and sacrilege; to which they say that S... ...olatry of Jerusalem, who was a married wife no less than Rome, they give it the name of adultery, and to her the name of adulteress. This learned man... ...he idolatry of Jerusalem, the spouse of God, the prophets do sometimes give the name of adultery, and to her of adulteress; but it is likewise most c... ... it will be found, that there the word fornication occurs seventeen times, and the word adultery but once. If the other prophecies be read, the same... ... assuredly be found, that they almost always call idolatry fornication, and very rarely adultery; which I regard so very obvious and easy of observa... ...Judah, saw it: “And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce...

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...The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the major phase of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply...

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...rom the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter “A” on her breast. The scarlet letter A represents the act of adultery that she has committed; it is to be a symbol of her sin for all to see. She will not reveal her lover’s identity, however, and the scarlet letter, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her ...

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...This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure! This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; Two Gentlemen, two scoundrels and one very underestimated, loyal serva...

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...a mo- ment after complete accord had ceased to exist between them. The new adultery was unfaithfulness to self. It was, as W estall had just reminded ...

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...n have played before our eyes the Saviour’s part toward the woman taken in adultery, why should ordi- nary men be wiser in their generation than they?... ...ich I was made to feel on that first day the bitterness of a retrospective adultery!” The next day, about two in the afternoon, one of the vicars of t...

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...p in whose pedigree is stained by some horrible mark of murder, parricide, adultery—this padded and whiskered pon- tiff—who rules in his jack-boots ov...

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...fe, either upon poisoning her children; or counterfeiting his keys, or for adultery; but if the husband upon any other occasion put her away, he order... ...rty which was afterwards charged upon their women, that they knew not what adultery meant. It is told, for instance, of Geradas, a very ancient, Spart... ...nded her portion, which was considerable, but her hus- band accused her of adultery; so the controversy was brought before Marius in his sixth consuls... ...riety, himself liv- ing all that time, as Sallust affirms, in lewdness and adultery. By these ways he so impoverished and drained the city of her trea...

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...he?’ ‘He neither does nor doesn’t. She is the harlot, the actual harlot of adultery to him. And he’s got a craving to throw himself into the filth of ...

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...us and munificent so far and no farther. Jesus Christ forgave the woman in adultery, and on the cross He promised heaven to a thief, in order to prove...

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...una, how far has this love affair gone? You are, I hope, still a virgin? You know the penalty for adultery in your religion.’ Helen remembered heari... ...membered hearing how Moslem women were stoned to death and men executed when taken in the act of adultery; moral laws as old as Islam and Judaism. ...

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...ht them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Mast... ...set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such s...

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...one of the plague spots of social life, of which we were just now speaking—adultery. My uncle remarked on the contradiction which the legislators of t... ... at the root of all the mischief. “ ‘In the eyes of the Church,’ said he, ‘adultery is a crime; in those of your tribunals it is a misdemeanor. Adulte... ...ave the husband free to take proceedings: well, there are not ten cases of adultery brought up in a year.’ “ ‘M. l’Abbe preaches for his own saint, fo... ...M. l’Abbe preaches for his own saint, for it was Jesus Christ who invented adultery,’ said Comte Octave. ‘In the East, the cradle of the human race, w... ...placing her on so high a level as the Church does, fearful punishments for adultery were needful. And formerly that was what was done. The cloister or... ...modified the law, as is always the case. The throne served as a hotbed for adultery, and the increase of this inviting crime marks the decline of the ... ...s really worthy of that of Jesus Christ when He rescued the woman taken in adultery. “ ‘It was eighteen months after my father’s death—my mother follo...

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...ive long upon the earth]. 5. Thou shalt not kill. 6. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7. Thou shalt not steal. 8. Thou shalt not bear false witness aga... ...hing but wrath and damnation. The Sixth Commandment. Thou shalt not commit adultery. These commandments now [that follow] are easily under- stood from... ...ring any disgrace upon him in re- spect to his wife. And it really aims at adultery , because among the Jews it was ordained and commanded that every ... ...either were public prostitution and lewdness tolerated (as now). Therefore adultery was the most common form of unchastity among them. But because amo... ...rks of the flesh (he says [chap. 5, 19ff.]) are manifest, which are these: Adultery fornication uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hat...

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... of and striving with it, happen to fall into manifest sins, as David into adultery, murder, and blasphemy, that then faith and the Holy Ghost has dep...

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... authors, your farces, your dramas, all your atrocious literature, turn on adultery—” “Come, come, Monsieur the Public Prosecutor,” retorted Etienne, ... ...se Lost. Eve and her serpent seem to me a pretty little case of symbolical adultery; you must suppress the Psalms of David, inspired by the highly adu... ...ttica.” “What are you trying to come to, monsieur?” asked the lawyer. “T o adultery!—For thus, monsieur, a Buddhist as he smokes his pipe may very wel... ...es his pipe may very well assert that the Christian religion is founded in adultery; as we believe that Mahomet is an im- postor; that his Koran is an...

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...re was not, in many ages, a single in- stance of this, which Martial calls adultery: Quae toties nubit, non nubit; adultera lege est.” “T rue, sir... ...ost of their power, both are too apt to connive at it. In the great sin of adultery, for instance; hath the government provided any law to punish it? ... ...edience of his most positive laws and commands? “‘I need not tell you that adultery is forbid in the laws of the decalogue; nor need I, I hope, mentio... ...a young fellow that had preached a sermon there upon a stool, in praise of adultery, she believed; for she could not get near enough to hear the parti... ...gravely, “I should be glad to know the reason of this immoderate mirth. Is adultery a matter of jest in your opinion?” “Far otherwise,” answered Booth... ...hat I received a very impertinent letter, something like a sermon, against adultery; but I did not expect to hear the author own it to my face.” “That...

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...gard V enice simply as affording exceptional opportunities for bathing and adultery, but who were reverently if confusedly aware that they were in the... ...us women: somehow she could not picture it invaded by bridge and debts and adultery. And yet that was what would have to be, of course … she could har...

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...houghts. It was blindness to that which set men stoning the woman taken in adultery. They forgot what they were made of. This stupidity, this unreason...

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..., let me tell you, and though the prophet David was guilty of mur der and adultery, and many other of the most deadly sins, yet he was said to be a m...