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Gen_38:18 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} ’ Eðéèõìéá áðï ôïõ èõìéåí ardere. Plato appetitum assimilat equo, qui sit, óêïëéïò, êñáôåñáõ÷ùí, Bñá÷õôñá÷çëïò, ìåëáã÷ñùò, êùöïò, ìáíôéãé ìïãéò õôåéêùí .