Yet one more curse accompanies impurity. Then, as now, disease was the penalty for this sin.

When thy flesh and thy body are consumed. —Ruin of health has followed ruin of property.

And you mourn at the last
Or roar as a lion, as the word ^F19 signifies; see (Proverbs 19:12) …

Solomon cautions all young men, as his children, to abstain from fleshly lusts. Some interpret "the adulterous woman" mentioned here as idolatry or…