OLD TESTAMENT

Leviticus 18:22

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“‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

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Verse 22. Abomination, punished so severely in the Sodomites. Genesis 19. Yet, even the philosophers of Greece were not at all ashamed of it. Bardesanes assures us, that the eastern nations punished it with death, and would not allow the guilty the honours of burial. Those beyond the Euphrates were so shocked at it, that they would kill themselves if they were only accused of such a crime. Ap. Eus. præp. vi. 10.

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