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Jdg_21:21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Ver. 21. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances.] This was not a mixed dancing of men and women together, which is a slippery slope to much sin, but of virgins only among themselves, and that in honour of God, according to the manner of those times at their solemnities, in due time and place, as our best interpreters are of opinion. This, then, no whit maketh for the mixed dancing of our days; much less for the mad practice of those in the isle of Sardinia, where after service done, they fall to dancing in the midst of the church, singing in the meantime songs too immodest for an ale house, and turning diem Dominicum in daemoniacum, the Lord’s day into the devil’s day, as Alstedius {a} complaineth of his Germans.
{a} Encyclopaed.