20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.



Ver. 20. And from fornication] Which is here reckoned among things indifferent, êáôá äïîáí, ïõ êáôá èåóéí , because the Gentiles esteemed it (falsely) a thing indifferent. Non est flagitium (mihi credo) adolescentulum scortari, potare, fores effringere, said he in Terence. So in the Turk’s Koran, the angel being demanded concerning venery, {a} is brought in answering, that God did not give men such appetites to have them frustrate, but enjoyed, as made for the satisfying of man, not for his torment, wherein his Creator delights not. But what saith the Scripture? "Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."



{a} The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure; indulgence of sexual desire. ŒD