fornication

• “I think fornication is better for you, the stones are smaller ….”

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• “Words that sound funny after you say them repeatedly (ex. “tampons,” “smorgasbord,” “gleen”) and what they start to sound like (gleen=the word for fornication in the language of Sleestacks).”

  Fictionaut: Intersomnolence

• “To those whom I have told this story since, some have disputed whether this was correct application of the sharia, primarily upon two grounds: (1) that she was not a Believer, and therefore sharia cannot apply, or (2) that the punishment for fornication is merely a hundred lashes, not the death by stoning required for adultery.”

  The Parable of the Spider

• “The image of a harlot's hire for the supposed temporal reward of spiritual fornication, is more common in Scripture (Ho 9: 1).”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “Scripture fornication is the standing image of idolatry; they are in fact ever spoken of as one and the same sin, considered now in its fleshly, now in its spiritual aspect (Jer 3: 1-15; Eze 16: 1-17: 24) [Trench].”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “Therefore fornication is not indifferent, since it is a sin against one's own body, which, like the Lord for whom it is created, is not to be destroyed, but to be raised to eternal existence.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “In the first Epistle which we have, the subject of fornication is alluded to only in a way, as if he were rather replying to an excuse set up after rebuke in the matter, than introducing for the first time [Alford].”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “I would not for my life commit a mortal sin; but even should it come to that, I know that simple fornication is not to be compared to the sin of homicide.”

  The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre

• “Note, The sin of fornication is a great injury in a Christian to his head and lord, and”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “The avoiding of fornication is necessary to all Christians at all times; the avoiding of things strangled, and of blood, and of things offered to idols, is necessary at this time, for the keeping up of a good understanding between you and the Jews, and the preventing of offence;" and as long as it continues necessary for that end, and no longer, it is enjoined.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

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