And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that [is] in thine hand. And he gave [it] her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

Ver. 18. And he gave it her, and came in unto her.] He gave her whatsoever she desired; as the manner of such men is: and although he committed incest ignorantly, yet not through ignorance, but through heat of lust, which is brutish and boisterous, burning as an oven: whence the Greeks have named it: and Plato compares it to a headstrong horse. a

a ' Eπιθυμια απο του θυμιεν ardere. Plato appetitum assimilat equo, qui sit, σκολιος, κρατεραυχων, Bραχυτραχηλος, μελαγχρως, κωφος, μαντιγι μογις υτεικων .

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