Wesley Corpus

Nor is it necessary for us to know: they for whom this law was intended, undoubtedly understood it. The father - Because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, as such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been ascribed to his evil education. She cried not - And therefore is justly presumed to have consented to it. Even so - Not an act of choice, but of force and constraint. The damsel cried - Which is in that case to be presumed; charity obliging us to believe the best, 'till the contrary be manifest. Fifty shekels - Besides the dowry, as Philo, the learned Jew notes, which is here omitted, because that was customary, it being sufficient here to mention what was peculiar to this case. His wife - If her father consented to it. Take - To wife. So this respects the state, and the next branch speaks of the act only.