ADULTERY

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she EATETH, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness, Proverbs 30:20

Exodus 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Adultery: from Hebrew na 'aph, "woman that breaketh wedlock" [Strong's  Concordance #5003]

Damages from feminism & the "Right of women to commit Adultery"

77% of Americans believe adultery is "always wrong"

Less than 10% believe married couples should overlook isolated occasions of sexual unfaithfulness

2-20% of disrupted marriages involve adultery

The Original Definition of Adultery

Lev 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Note that the words "another" and "even he" are italicized, which means that they were added by the translators.

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Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

If "adultery" in this sentence meant the individual private act of men having sex with other men's wives, then it would have read:

"And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding men of Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."

The fact that it refers to public actions by the entire race suggests that it's not a private act of men having sex with other men's wives, but rather miscegenation of that race with other races

The following is a reference to the Kingdom of Israel, rather than individuals:

Eze 23:37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

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Mat 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah:

The Century Dictionary, Copyright 1911

1. Violation of the marriage bed; carnal connection of a married person with any other than the lawful spouse; in a more restricted sense, the wrong by a wife which introduces or may introduce a spurious offspring into the family.  In some jurisdictions the law makes adultery a crime, in some only a civil injury.  In England, formerly, it was punished by a fine & imprisonment, and in Scotland it was frequently made a capital offense.  In Great Britain at the present day, it is punishable only by ecclesiastical censure; but when committed by the wife, it is regarded as a civil injury, and forms the ground of an action of damages against the paramour.   Contrary to previous general opinion, it has recently been held in the United States that a wife may have a corresponding action against a woman who seduces away her husband.  In England and Scotland the husband's recovery of damages against the paramour can now be had only by joining him with the wife in an action for divorce.

Blackstone's Commentaries

In case of divorce a mensa et thoro, the law allows alimony to the wife: which Is that allowance which is made to a woman for her support out of the husband's estate: being settled at the discretion of the ecclesiastical judge, on consideration of all the circumstances of the case. This is sometimes called her estovers; for which, if he refuses payment, there is (besides the ordinary process of excommunication) a writ at common law de estoveris habendis, in order to recover it.l It is generally proportioned to the rank and quality of the parties. But, in case of elopement, and living with an adulterer, the law allows her no alimony.

1. Who may be endowed. She must be the actual wife of the party at the time of his decease. If she be divorced a vinculo matrimonii, she shall not be endowed ; for ubi nullum matrimonium, ibl nulla dosh. But a divorce a mensa et thoro only a Wilk. 75. . b Somner. Gavelk. 51. Co. Litt. 33. Bro. Dower. 70, c Wright. 192. d Crag. /. 2. t. 22. �. 9. , c Hid. f Mod. Un. Hist, xxxii. 91. S Bract. /. 2. c. 39. Co. Litt. 30. h Bract. I. 2. c. 39. �. 4.doth not destroy the dower'; no, not even for adultery itself by the common law k. Yet now by the statute Westm. 2'. if a woman voluntarily leaves (which the law calls eloping from) her husband, and lives with an adulterer, she shall lose her dower, unless her husband be voluntarily reconciled to her13.

Aristotle in 345 BC

Such emotions as spite, shamelessness, and envy have no mean and are simply base, just as some actions are bad such as adultery, theft, and murder. Such bad actions do not have a right time or manner.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Sexual relations by a married person with someone other than the spouse. Prohibitions or taboos against adultery, written or customary, constitute part of the marriage code of virtually every society. Indeed, adultery seems to be as universal and, in some instances, as common as marriage.

The Code of Hammurabi (18th century BC) in Babylonia provided a punishment of death by drowning for adultery. In ancient Greece and in Roman law, the offending female spouse could be killed, but men were not severely punished. The Jewish, Isla mic, and Christian traditions are unequivocal in their condemnation of adultery. The culpability of men as well as women is more explicitly expressed in the New Testament and the Talmud than in the Old Testament or the Qur'an.

The attitude toward adultery within different cultures varies widely. Whereas the traditional Senufo (Senoufo) and Bambara of West Africa, for instance, tacitly condone the honour crime of killing the adulterous female spouse and her companion, among the Kaka in Cameroon, a man may have sexual relations with the wives of certain relatives with impunity. Wife lending is part of Eskimo hospitality. Nonincestuous adultery is permitted by many South Sea island peoples, and among certain Pueblo Indian societies adultery is so common that it is tolerated if kept secret.

Under ancient Hindu law, marriage was an indissoluble sacrament, and not even a wife's adultery could sever the legal tie and dissolve the marriage act. In the modern Hindu code, divorce will be granted to either offended party, but not for occasional violations; the spouse must actually be living in adultery with another.

In western Europe and North America, adultery is a ground for divorce. The diffusion of this principle, as well as Western notions of egalitarianism and modern expectations of mutual emotional support in marriage, has resulted in unprecedented pressure for equal marital rights for women in traditional African and Southeast Asian societies.

In many eastern European countries, adultery does not in itself constitute grounds for divorce; both partners must testify, under the principle of “general breakdown,” that the offense results in the decline of those feelings of which marital unity is composed.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary

ADULTERY, criminal law. From ad and alter, another person; a criminalconversation, between a man married to another woman, and a woman married to another man, or a married and unmarried person. The married person is guilty of adultery, the unmarried of fornication. (q.v.) 1 Yeates, 6; 2 Dall. 124; but see 2 Blackf. 318.

2. The elements of this crime are, 1st, that there shall be an unlawful carnal connexion; 2dly, that the guilty party shall at the time be married; 3dly, that he or she shall willingly commit the offence; for a woman who has been ravished against her will is not guilty of adultery. Domat, Supp. du Droit Public, liv. 3, t. 10, n. 13.

3. The punishment of adultery, in the United States, generally, is fine and imprisonment.

4. In England it is left to the feeble hands of the ecclesiastical courts to punish this offence.

5. Adultery in one of the married persons is good cause for obtaining a divorce by the innocent partner. See 1 Pick. 136; 8 Pick. 433; 9 Mass. 492: 14 Pick. 518; 7 Greenl. 57; 8 Greenl. 75; 7 Conn. 267 10 Conn. 372; 6 Verm. 311; 2 Fairf. 391 4 S. & R. 449; 5 Rand. 634; 6 Rand. 627; 8 S. & R. 159; 2 Yeates, 278, 466; 4 N. H. Rep. 501; 5 Day, 149; 2 N. & M. 167.

6. As to proof of adultery, see 2 Greenl. Sec. 40, Marriage.

AVOWTRY, Eng. law. The crime of adultery.  [also called "criminal conversation"].

FORNICATION, crim. law. The unlawful carnal knowledge of an unmarried person with another, whether the latter be married or unmarried. When the party is married, the offence, as to him or her, is known by the name of adultery. (q.v.) Fornication is, however, included in every case of adultery, as a larceny is included in robbery. 2 Hale's P. C. 302.

SOLICITATION OF CHASTITY. The asking a person to commit adultery or fornication.

2. This of itself, is not an indictable offence. Salk. 382; 2 Chit. Pr. 478. The contrary doctrine, however, has been held in Connecticut. 7 Conn. Rep. 267.

3. In England, the bare solicitation of chastity is punished in the ecclesiastical courts. 2 Chit. Pr. 478. Vide Str. 1100; 10 Mod. 384; Sayer, 33; 1 Hawk. ch. 74; 2 Ld. Raym. 809.

4. The civil law punished arbitrarily the person who solicited the chastity of another. Dig. 47, 11, 1. Vide To persuade; 3 Phillim. R. 508.

ADULTERY AND ABORTION

American men don't ask much of their women.  They know that men constitute 95% of our ponderous prison population and women only 5%, even though women are 58 to 234 times more likely to murder their children than fathers--but they do nothing.  They know that the high accident rate of women causes the deaths of an additional 6,200 men annually in traffic accidents, giving us a motor vehicle fatality rate almost three times higher than England--but they do nothing.  They know that women pilots are four times more likely than men pilots to crash--but they do nothing. They know that women are five times more likely than men to be acquitted of the same crime, that they are 16% less likely to be convicted if tried for the same crime, that men receive prison sentences 2.7 times longer than women for the same crime, that wives are twice as likely as husbands to initiate a contract to kill their spouse--but they do nothing.  They know that American men are 1,000 times more likely than Japanese men or Italian men or Greek men to be accused, tried, and convicted of rape, and that half of those convicted don't even match the DNA evidence from the "crime scene"--but they do nothing.  They know that women own 65% of the wealth in the nation even though men earn 43% more than women, and that men are 99.993% of the battle deaths in the wars we have fought, and women only 0.007%--but they are content with that. 

All they ask is that married women bear their husband's children!

That's all!

As bad as that is, far worse is cheating on their husbands so frequently that 12.6 million children are subjected to the shame, social pathologies, and stigma of not even being biologically linked to their own putative fathers.

And worse than that?  12.6 million men [not fathers] who were STUPID enough to trust women enough to marry them and believe that their oaths to God to honor and obey them would be upheld, who were forced to pay to raise their mailman's or gardener's children while they were robbed of their heritage and their heirs.

If this 12.6 million adulterous women were to be punished as the Holy Bible demands that they be and as they should be to bring this practice to a halt, rather than men being 95% of two million prison inmates, women would be 86% of the 14.6 million inmates--except that punishing wives who commit adultery REDUCES crime, and prevents women from committing adultery, and would leave far less than 2 million men in prison.

STRONG'S CONCORDANCE

OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

adultery adA.lteri. Forms: 4-5 avowter, avowtrie, -tri, -tery, avouterye; 4-6 avoutrie, -try; 5 avutrie, avoutri, -trye, -terie, avowtrye; adultery, -trye (only in Sc. and north. writers); 5-6 advoutrye, -tery, -terye, advoultrye, 5-7 advowtry, -trie, advoutrie, -try, 6 advoutri, -treye, adoutry, aduoultrie, -try, adoultry, 6-7 adultry, -trie, -terie, 6- adultery. [a. OFr. avouterie, avoutrie, earlier a�uterie, a�lterie, n. of condition f. avoutre, a�utre:-L. adulter, see -y; found alongside of avoutire, earlier a�utire, a�ltere:-L. adulterium, occas. also in Eng. as avowter. In 14th c. Fr. a learned form adult�re was formed afresh on L. adulterium, and gradually superseded the popular avoutire and avouterie; under the same influence the Eng. avoutrie was progressively refashioned as advoutrie or aduoutrie, aduoultrie, adoultry, adultry, adultery, thus ending in a direct Eng. repr. of adulterium, and practically a distinct word from avoutrie, though connected with it by every kind of intermediate form. This latinized type had also been used by Scotch and northern writers as early as 1430. Advowtry survived to 1688.]
1. Violation of the marriage bed; the voluntary sexual intercourse of a married person with one of the opposite sex, whether unmarried, or married to another (the former case being technically designated single, the latter double adultery).

1366 Maundev. 249 3if ony man or woman be taken in Avowtery or Fornycacyoun, anon thei sleen him.
C. 1370 Wyclif Agst. Begging Friers (1608) 31 Fryars suffren mightie men, fro yeare to yeare, live in avowtrie.
1386 Chaucer Parson's T. 766 Thilke stynkynge synne of lecherie that men clepe auowtrie (v.r. avoutrie, auouterie, advoutrie2, aduoutre).
1400 Apol. for Loll. 78 If �e first woman may not proue her contract, �an �e secound schal be his wif, bi resoun of avowter;
C. 1418 Pol. Poems (1859) II. 247 So overset with avutrie.
C. 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. ii. 87 Bot a wykkdy wyf had he Dat levyd in-til Adultery.
C. 1460 Cov. Myst. (1841) 10 A woman..The whiche was taken in adultrye.
1485 Richard III in Paston Lett. 883 III. 317 Doughter unto Dame Katryne Swynford and of her in double Avoutry gottyn.
1491 Caxton How to Die 6 The woman that was taken in aduoultrye.
1525 Ld. Berners Froissart xliii. II. 139 She was but a bastarde, and borne in aduoutrye.
1533 Elyot Castel of Helth iii. xii. 67 Hym, which had committed adoutry with his mayster's wyfe.
1541 Barnes Wks. 1573, 187/2 That you shal depose a kyng, bycause hee lyueth in aduoultry.
1570 Ascham Scholem. (1863) 81 Knightes that do kill..and commit fowlest aduoulteres.
1611 Bible John viii. 4 This woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. [Wycl. avoutri, Tind. advoutry, Cranm. aduoutry, Genev., Rhem. aduoutrie, Gen. 1590 adulterie.]
1641 W. Cartwright Ordinary iv. v. (1651) 75 There shall be no Advowtry in my ward.
1648 Herrick To his Book Wks. 1859, 409 She'l runne to all adulteries.
1660 R. Coke Elem. Power & Subj; 194 Deadly sin, of Fornication, Avowtry, and such like.
1677 Baxter Let. in Answ. Dodwell 114, I heard, when I was young, of one, or two, that for Adultery stood in a White Sheet in the Church.
1688 Pol. Ballads (1860) I. 265 As long as you've pence, y' need scruple no offence, For murder, advoutery, treason.
1835 Thirlwall Greece I. viii. 327 Adultery was long unknown at Sparta.b. Extended in Scripture, to unchastity generally; and by various theologians opprobriously used of any marriages of which they disapproved, as of a widower, a nun, a Christian with a Jewess, etc. ( interpretative adultery). Also fig. in Script. to giving the affections to idols, idol-worship; and in Eccl. writers to the enjoyment by any one of a benefice during the life-time of the legal incumbent, or to the translation of a bishop from one see to another ( spiritual adultery). See Chambers Cycl. Supp. 1753, s.v.

1388 Wyclif Jer. iii. 9 Bi li3tnesse of hir fornicacioun sche defoulide the erthe, and dide auowtrie with a stoon, and with a tree.
1590 Bible (Genev.) Matt. v. 28 Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart.
1611 Bible Jer. iii. 9 Shee defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stockes.
1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. A kind of second marriage, which was esteemed a degree of adultery.
1872 Freeman Hist. Ess. (ed. 2) 17 He is rebuked by Saint Dunstan who pronounces the marriage to be mere adultery.`Used in ancient customs for the punishment or fine imposed for that offence, or the privilege of prosecuting for it.' Chambers, Cycl. Supp. 1753, whence in subseq. Encyclop�dias and Dicts. But Spelman, who is quoted for it, gives it only (and that erroneously) as a use of the L; adulterium.


2. Adulteration, debasement, corruption. Obs.

1609 B. Jonson Epicene i. i, Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' Adulteries of Art.
1673 Lady's Calling ii. iii. Sect.20. 92 Nor must she think to cure this by any the little adulteries of art: she may buy beauty, and yet can never make it her own.

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From G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively idolatry: - fornication.

Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Mat 5:32 But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

THE SOCIAL COSTS OF ADULTERY

"Some physicians doing tissue typing for organ donations estimate that maybe 20% of people are not genetically related to the men claiming fatherhood" Barbara Rothman, "Recreating Motherhood", page 225

Take some time to think about the implications of that single paragraph.

"Some physicians doing tissue typing for organ donations estimate that maybe 20% of people are not genetically related to the men claiming fatherhood"

Since Roe vs. Wade was passed against the majority will of the American population, against the good senses of the 253 million Christians in this country, contrary to common sense and decency, against God's will, in violation of the teachings of the Holy Bible and every Pope for the last two millennia, against the principles of most other world religions, in contradiction to the preachers and pastors and priests of this country, and to the delight of the mental health workers and abortion doctors whose businesses skyrocketed:

1. 130 million Ameican women have gotten pregnant.

2. 40 million American women have had "abortions" [read: murdered babies in one of the most sacred environments known to man].

3. 90 million have given birth.

4. 27 million have given birth to children out of wedlock.

5. 63 million have given birth to children in families.

6. 12.6 million wives have given birth to children who are not the biological offspring of the husbands of those families.

THAT bears repeating: 12.6 million wives have given birth to children who are not the biological offspring of the husbands of those families.

12.6 million wives have given birth to children who are not the biological offspring of the husbands of those families!

The monetary cost of raising a child from birth to 18 years of age, not including investments of time and emotion, not including the social trauma to both children and fathers who eventually discover the treacherous act of adultery which led to this situation, not including the cost of the social pathology laid on the rest of society by increased imprisonment, psychiatric and health care, and educational devolvement, is conservatively $86,400 ($4,800 per year).  Some sources estimate that one third of American children aren't the biological offspring of the husbands of those "intact families", but using a figure of only 12.6 million, the monetary cost of adultery to fathers themselves (not including the portion of their tax dollars which are funding this social pathology) is $1.1 trillion.

Compare this to the economic loss due to the 728,313 homicides in the US in the last four decades.  Using the guideline that civil engineers use (if a project is estimated to cost more than $50,000 per potential life saved theb it's not economically viable), homicides over this period of time cost $36.4 billion, meaning that the monetary cost of adultery exceeded that of homicide by 30 times.   In addition, at least a quarter of those 728,313 homicides, or 182,078 can be traced directly to this high rate of adultery and illegitimacy.

Upholding adultery laws, as most other Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu nations do, would have two major benefits:

1. It would reduce this high illegitimacy rate in intact families by perhaps 90%, reducing this monetary cost by $990 billion,

2. Over the next four decades, at least 182,078 American lives could be saved from homicide, saving another $91 billion.

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