But these things are not now required of us. But all is transferred to the soul. For bodily things are nearer to us, from these therefore he introduced instruction. But it is not so now. From that let us flee, from that let us abstain.
Nothing is more unclean than covetousness.
From the facts themselves. But the Jews consider this as nothing. And yet Moses carried off the bones of Joseph. Samson drank from the jawbone of an ass, and ate honey from the lion, and Elijah was nourished by ravens, and by a widow woman. The fornicator, then, is not the only one that is unclean, hut others more than he, as the adulterer.