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But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
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The Gravity of Deception
Commentators explain that the severity of the punishment reflects the seriousness of the deception. John Calvin argues that defrauding a spouse in the sacred covenant of marriage is a more intolerable crime than financial fraud, as it abuses the sacred institution itself.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 22:13–30. LAWS OF CONJUGAL FIDELITY.
Virginity. —The law in these verses will be b…
16th Century
Protestant
But if this thing be true. If the punishment should seem to anyone to be somewhat too severe, let him reflect that no kind of fraud is mor…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if this thing is true Which the husband of the damsel laid to her charge, that she was no virgin when married to him,…
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Presbyterian
These and similar regulations might have been necessary then, and yet it is not necessary that we scrupulously examine them. The laws relate to the…
